"How are the so-called
right wing groups limiting debate by engaging in debate?" (talkback
'McQueen' in the Jerusalem Post in response to a screed about
"Academic Lynching" written by David Newman (BGU, Dean, Social
Sciences and Humanities Dept), December 6, 2011, in which he
challenges the right to criticize tenured extremistsat BGU

Hebrew
University - Dimitry Shumsky (Dept
of History) is IsraCampus' Nomination for the 2015 Most Absurd
Article Award

Shumsky claims that the Israeli Left pursues the agenda of the
Israeli Right because they are all afraid of being assassinated!

Even
Netanyahu's most outspoken opponents, when from time to time they
managed to take hold of the reins of government after Rabin's
murder, took no diplomatic step to end the occupation that did not
involve efforts to create a solid Jewish majority for it. But that
is not possible because most Jewish Israelis are prepared to
continue living with the occupation and the settlements.

In that sense, the despair of Netanyahu's opponents in Israel after
Rabin's assassination is greater than that of Putin's opponents in
Russia after Nemtsov's murder. Those who oppose Putin can at least
dream that one day the gray KGB man from the Kremlin will be gone —
even if they can't imagine how it will come to pass, considering the
lack of a democratic tradition in Russian.

Netanyahu's opponents, however, know full well that thanks to the
democratic system in Israel, Netanyahu may one day move out of the
house on Balfour Street. But the realistic among them understand
that even if another party forms a government, it is almost certain
that its members, who have learned the lesson of Rabin's death, will
continue to promote Netanyahu's policies, even if in a different
form and by different means.

Ben-Dror Yemini castigates Ben-Dor and his role as a Hamas
mouthpiece.
Locals have petitioned to the University to abort the
“conference”.

The
invitation makes it clear that the conference this time will not be
dealing with Israel's actions, but "will focus on exploring themes
of Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism; all of which are
posed by Israel's very nature."

There's an Israeli among the organizers too - Professor Oren Ben-Dor,
another one of those wild weeds, those BDS supporters, who reject
the right of the Jews to a state and try to sell us the same old
goods, believing that silencing Israelis who think differently is
the true expression of freedom of speech and thought. And now this
evil man is organizing a conference that essentially negates the
existence of Israel. Hamas doesn't need a propaganda department. It
already has PR agents doing the work.

In a classical Orwellian Inversion, Kleinberg blames the Government
for "disassembling the Zionist project of the 'Jewish and
democratic' state" by following Rav Kook's philosophy. Kleinberg
vexes how rabbinical "post-Zionist" messianic fanaticism in
governmental policies will turn the Israeli democracy into an "ethnoratic
dictatorship".

Post-Zionist
government leading us to a binational state
Op-ed: The Netanyahu governments, even when they include Labor and
Yesh Atid members, are disassembling the Zionist project of the
'Jewish and democratic' state.
…
Many of these housing starts (perhaps most) are outside the
settlement blocs, and some are in isolated settlements, whose main
goal is to prevent any possibility of territorial continuity on
lands which have theoretically been allotted to the Palestinian
state…
…
This time we are not talking about a Jewish state, but about the
binational state which is taking shape.

The Netanyahu governments (even when they included members of the
Labor Party and Yesh Atid) are post-Zionist governments which are
disassembling the Zionist project of the "Jewish and democratic"
state. No one is declaring it (the opposite is being declared), but
it's happening on the ground: Anyone who takes a look at the map of
the West Bank territories realizes that the State of Israel has
intentionally created on them a network of communities, which the
only logic that can be found in them is turning the separation
between us and the Palestinians from a difficult task into an
impossible one.

This plan is not phrased in messianic terms. It is phrased in the
boring terms of master plans and housing units and infrastructure.
But the Zionist project – which sees territory as a tool for the
main thing, which is creating a state with a solid Jewish majority
which sustains democratic institutions – is no longer behind it.

According to the world view of Netanyahu and his partners in Judea
and Samaria, territory comes first, followed by the Jewish majority,
and democracy comes last. This is messianism which has exchanged the
festive language of Rabbi Kook with the bureaucratic language of the
Israel Land Administration.
…
If a miracle doesn't happen, we'll give up the least important part
of the triangle – democracy. Israel will declare itself an
ethnoratic dictatorship – a state in which only Jews have civil
rights.

But
in 2008, the same court adopted a noninterventionist stance towards
Prof. Ze'ev Sternhell, among the bluntest spokesmen of Israel's far
Left. That was despite the fact that Sternhell had previously
written: "Only those ready to storm Ofra [a settlement in Samaria]
with tanks will stem the fascist tide, which threatens to engulf
Israel's democracy."

One
of the judges Netanyahu sought to dismiss is Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld,
who openly urged young Israelis to refuse military service. In a
2002 stint as judge, Hirschfeld foiled a majority decision to award
the Israel Prize to author Aharon Megged. He did this behind the
backs of other panelists.

Hebrew University - Bernard Avishai
(Dept of Business Administration) Still Peddling Peres' New Middle
East Delusions

Avishai preaches capitulation to Arab aggression and wishes up some
fantasy economics where regional pseudo-peace will sprout prosperity rather
than missiles. Avishai insists that we should envision his
ivory-tower tinted dream world of opulence in a peaceful Middle East
to deflect attention away from the potential game changer to the
economy – Israeli energy self-sufficiency. Since the gas supply is
slated to come online sometime during the upcoming 20th
Knesset, Avishai naturally wants to get his finger in the pie.

Avishai suggests creative peacemaking and aspires to place the
future security of the State of Israel in the hands of the likes of
Europe and Obama. He also places the well-being of Israeli citizens
living beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines in the hands of some as yet
non existent, foreign police force. Examples like Avishai's
grotesque inversion of Zionist ideals has prompted Martin Sherman to
suggest
making "academics" criminally culpable when advocating
irresponsible policies for which the outcome is blatantly
detrimental to national security or the physical safety of its
citizens.

The blame game is rehashed too.
Avishai fingers Netanyahu and
Bennett for impeding his utopian vision of peace and
prosperity, just as anyone to the political right of Mertez has been
blamed,
and being blamed still, for murdering peace.

You all know that there is an
economic crisis in this country. But nobody else will tell you the
truth about it.
…
Let me be clear. Our future is in a
global economy. That's where Eretz Israel actually lives, that's
where we shine. The fact that business is so science-based today, so
networked, so personal, has been our opportunity. But it is also
what puts us in great jeopardy. We don't export oil; we can't eat
algorithms. Every advanced country must deepen its integration with
global commercial and scientific networks, from which they dare not
disconnect. Palestinians will not just go to the International
Criminal Court. They will go to the International Trade
Organization, which can impose sanctions on us.

… But with Netanyahu and Bennett as
the face of Israel, disdain for Israel will now increase – and fast
– even in America.… I'll say it again: Israel cannot alienate the world's
intelligentsia and not suffer devastating economic consequences.
…
So here is the last thing nobody
else will tell you – and Palestinian leaders are beginning to
understand this, too… To make the dream of two states work, we
cannot implement full separation…
…
We'll need highly cooperative
institutions, with Western and regional help, to manage an undivided
municipality of Jerusalem,
especially if sovereignty is shared. And when you recognize the
inevitability of cooperation, you might more easily imagine
accepting a small, symbolic number of Palestinian refugees living in Israel but remaining citizens
of Palestine, while many Israeli settlers live in Palestine but
remain citizens of Israel.

After a long list of rabid anti-Israel Israel Prize "academics", the
far-leftist bias on the Prize Committee is being tackled.

The leftist advocacy group "Israel
Democracy Institute" was granted the Israel Prize for "lifetime
achievement." Zeev Sternhell, the hardcore Marxist anti-Zionist
pseudo-academic best known for calling on terrorists to murder
settlers, was granted the prize in "political science." The
malicious Israel-hating propagandist Judd Neeman (from Tel Aviv
University) was granted the prize in film. Far leftist professor
Avishai Margalit (Hebrew University) got the prize in philosophy.
The vile vulgar ultra-leftist politician Shulamit Aloni was granted
the prize for "lifetime achievement," and her achievement largely
included malicious bigotry and slander against Orthodox Jews. The
far-leftist education professor Gavriel Salomon was granted the
prize for developing in-classroom propaganda centers in "peace
education." … Far leftist Yehuda Bauer was granted the prize, as was
Shlomo Avineri, a recovering Marxist now moved to the moderate Left.
Amos Oz was given the prize and you all know where he is
politically. … Marxist sociologist Sami Samoocha won the prize in
sociology, for his pseudo-research on ethnic inequality in Israel. …
And we could go on. My guess is it is only a matter of time until
anti-Semite Shlomo Sand gets a prize.

Suddenly
this past week, Netanyahu decided to disqualify some of the more
openly political ideologues sitting as judges in the committees that
award the prizes. One of those disqualified (Ariel Hirschfeld) is a
radical professor who has long promoted insurrection and "refusal"
by soldiers to serve in the military. Unlike those "judges,"
Netanyahu has been elected to office by the people of Israel.
…
Some of the "judges" have resigned from the prize award committees
in protest. None ever resigned when the prize was granted to
Sternhell, Aloni, or the IDI. The leftist media are denouncing
Netanyahu for his "philistinism" and his "politicizing" the prizes…

But now, how dare Netanyahu and the
Likud exercise their power to govern simply on the basis of the fact
that they were elected to power!!? That, you see, is undemocratic.

Illouz, utilizing allegories from the world
of S&M, portrays the Prime Minister as a security-oriented 'Dom'
intimidating the Israeli electorate into submissives. Illouz
minimizes the legitimate existential threat of the Iranian bomb into
right-wing demagoguery or an election tactic aimed at feeding
newspaper headlines. Illouz also whitewashes the damage to Israel's
international standing caused by the global crusade of
de legitimization waged by the Israeli Extreme Left.

Few democratically elected heads of government
have used fear as blatantly in defining their discourse as
Netanyahu. Fear is his surest and closest political companion: It is
Iran's nuclear power; it is the Arab world; it is a Europe that
hates the Jews; it is the Jews who have forgotten to be Jews (and
presumably are about to destroy the Jewish civilization); it is
Isaac Herzog who betrayed the nation in going to the recent Munich
Security Conference; it is the leftists who want to sell the country
to the Arabs – in short, it is all those, outside and inside the
country, who want to bring about the demise of Israel and the Jews.
…
For one, fear, far more than anger, justifies the
aggressiveness and violence that are at the heart of the Israeli
right-wing view of politics. That is, it is easier to justify
morally military aggressiveness or domination by invoking fear than
by claiming proudly to be the neighborhood bully. If you are the
kind of guy who enjoys carrying weapons, it is easier to explain
this publicly by claiming you are afraid of street crime, than it is
to say you value the feeling of power that a gun gives you. Fear is
the moral excuse of the violence and "securitism" that have replaced
political know-how and wisdom.

Since
the holocaust, most Jews in the world have been killed in Israel, by
far. It's the most dangerous place on earth for Jews. We are killed
@ ~ 1,000 each year here. Far far fewer Jews are killed in the whole
of the rest of the world.
Safest for Jews is to emigrate from Israel.

Sapir College -
Ido Nevo (Dept
of Management) Spearheading Religious Persecution and
Discrimination at Sapir College

Hot on the heels of the "Slaughter
the Jews" and the "Judaica
Lingerie" taxpayer-funded atrocities under the banner of freedom
of speech, Nevo offends religious Jews and prohibits use of
millennia-old custom. Sapir College had no comment.

UPDATE: Sapir College issues scathing reprimand to Nevo.

Students
at a course in Sapir College in Sderot said that they were shocked
to learn that the term "Basad" - the Hebrew-language contraction for
an expression that means "with the help of G-d" - had been banned
from the blackboard by a professor at the school.
…
Dr. Ido Nevo, a professor of political science at Sapir, is not
enamored of the expression – to the extent that he issued a written
order to adjuncts who were supervising a test for him that they were
forbidden from writing the expression on the blackboard.
…
When told that erasing the expression is insulting to the many
observant students in the course, Nevo responded that the blackboard
was "his," and that he could decide what would or would not appear
on it.
----UPDATE: Sapir College President Professor Omri Yadlin issues
a scathing response to the incident, according to the news site, and
demanded that all students and professors respect the differing
values among the student body. … "The lecturer was explained to
regarding the gravity of the event, he received an explanation and a
reprimand, and promised it would not happen again." Yadlin noted
that the issue is a matter of freedom of speech, as well…

Hebrew University - Marxist Anti-Zionist
Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science) Hates his Own Country and
Would Like to See it Erased

Therefore,
no matter what sort of government is formed after the elections,
the chance that Israel will into enter serious negotiations with
the Arabs is close to nil. If that were not the case, Israel
would have long ago adopted the joint Arab initiative of 2002.
Israel sees no reason to reward the Arabs for their
helplessness: the settlement enterprise, the oppression of the
Palestinians and keeping them under conditions of apartheid will
continue as long the European Union and the United States do not
jointly apply massive diplomatic and economic pressure on
Israel.

But the cult of power is only one aspect of reality. The feeling of
being the persecuted victim was always the second. Israeli whining,
ugly and by now well-established, and the embarrassing use of the
memory of the Holocaust by Israeli officials have transformed the
cultivation of existential danger into one of the pillars of Israeli
policy.

Illouz
seeks out, what is for her, 'evil' not in the thinking and actions
of those who activiely engage in promoting the killing Jews and the
undermining of the state of Israel, but through her illusions, also
in that element of the nation's spirit which seeks to shore up
Zionism and Jewish peoplehood and sovereignty and those positive
values are harmed by her irrationalizations.

She bemoans the weakness of Leftists in Israel as a counterpoint to
the danger she has identified. Weakness? She calls it 'the collapse
of the Left' and finally points an accusing finger at Arabs:

The recent
discovery of tunnels inside Gaza, for example, can only further
weaken the left camp.

Another Illouzian illusion – those tunnels weren't so much a threat
to lives as they harmed the Left.

My imagination seems to be telling me that Ms. Illouz has become
detached from logic's moorings as her disdain for values of
nationhood, Judaism and the intrinsic meaning of the Land of Israel
grows.

Cassif uses verbal violence in an attempt to stifle students from
expressing their freedom of speech. After the students filed a
complaint, Cassif was summoned to the Faculty Dean, who forced
Cassif to issue an apology.

The
activists claim that while they were distributing and posting the
cover around campus, Dr. Ofer Kassif, a professor of political
science at Hebrew University, approached them and began, without any
apparent reason, to shout curses at them such as "Scumbags!" and
"Rubbish!" He allegedly turned to the students that stood by and
asked "What are these [expletive] doing here?… You scumbags, go back
to your friends in Italy from 70 years ago!" -- an apparent
reference to the Fascist movement under Benito Mussolini.
…
Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, said: "The thuggish and violent
behavior of Dr. Ofer Kassif, a professor at Hebrew University,
crossed a dangerous red line. It is against all students who want to
express their views on campus using legitimate means."

The Hebrew University Spokesperson told Arutz Sheva … "The
university encourages open, cultured discourse and denounces any use
of vile language and verbal violence. The Dean of the Faculty for
Social Science, Prof. Vered Vinitzky Sarousi, has spoken to Dr.
Kassif, who has apologized for the way he spoke.

Shimoni is an inverse modern-day Balaam, initially coming to defend
Israel but then abandons her, and his integrity, to phony claims of
supposed Israeli "apartheid."

The
good Professor Shimoni is certainly not openly anti-Israel or
opposed to a Jewish state (except maybe in Judea and Samaria). Born
in and a product of South Africa, he recently wrote some articles in
which he denied comparisons between South Africa and Israel. He
happily says that Israel is not an apartheid state like South Africa
was and correctly describes those who use such comparisons as people
who really want Israel dismantled. In that respect, Professor
Shimoni is correct and should be commended.

But Professor Shimoni's integrity falls apart the moment he engages
in debate over the "occupied territories." He is certainly entitled
to his opinion that Israel should simply get out of the West Bank
and let the terrorists run the show there. That in and of itself
just makes him naïve, not anti-Israel. The problem is that he then
joins the bash-Israel anti-Zionist bandwagon of demonization.
…
Professor Shimoni
wrote this in the Jerusalem Post:

"It is in this
respect alone that use of the South African analogy to critique
Israel is justified, and importantly so. Never as grist to the mill
of those who labor to delegitimize and demonize Israel by falsely
labeling it an apartheid state and subjecting it to sanctions and
boycotts, but certainly as a warning cry lest perpetuation of the
occupation regime cause Israel to replicate South African
reform-phase apartheid; a strategy which proved to be not only
morally reprehensible but also realistically untenable."

Is Shimoni so naïve as to misunderstand
the role of the "apartheid" calumny aimed at
Israel by the anti-Semites? Does he not realize what his own
endorsement of the calumny, no matter how many caveats he adds, will
have? Has it never occurred to him what the anti-Semites will do
with this "condemnation of Israeli apartheid" written by an Israeli
professor who grew up in South Africa?

Speaking to Ynetnews, they said the
Islamic Movement on campus limits its activities to operating a
small fund, known as Eqraa, which they said was "a limited fund to
aid Muslim students."

But Eqraa also happens to be the
name of Hamas' civilian infrastructure fund, designed to provide a
cover for terror activity, according to the Israeli security
website,
Intelligence.
Could the two Eqraas be linked?
…
Colonel (Res.) Jonathan Fighel, a
senior researcher for the
Institute of
Counter-Terrorism, at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya:
"Eqraa is linked to Hamas and to radical forces among Arab-Israelis,
and the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel," he said,
adding that the fund is part of a Da'wa effort (missionizing and
spreading radical Islam).

Fighel outlined a number of contexts
in which Eqraa operated, each one linked to Hamas, Saudi Arabia,
or even al-Qaeda.
…
"It's totally clear we are talking about a charity which has a
mission. It is backed by a Saudi radical madrassah and is linked to
Hamas," Fighel said.
…
On Thursday, Ynetnews received an email, claiming to be from Eqraa,
rejecting Fighel's claims. The email said "Fighel's words are lies
based on hatred and racism" and claimed he was talking "nonsense.

It's an inversion of reality. I read Pappe's
book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and found his distortions
so jaw-dropping that I made a video about it. Thus I know that Pappe
has no business gathering respectable audiences or having his book
in public libraries (history section?) and certainly not being
presented as a victim. BDS nevertheless uses him successfully to
make their case.
----Indianapolis JCRC Statement on Ilan Pappe

However, there is a stark difference between
respectful discourse and even extreme criticism – and that of hate
speech. It is our belief that Dr. Pappe falls into the latter
category. Not only does Dr. Pappe falsely accuse Israel of genocide
and ethnic cleansing, he is an avid supporter of the BDS movement,
which is anti-Semitic at its core, calling for a one-state solution,
meaning the Jewish State of Israel would cease to exist. Indeed, he
says he dreams of a day "when Zionism will be defeated as the
ideology that governs our lives between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea".[1]
----Support the Interfaith Statement on Ilan Pappé

In response, the Indianapolis Jewish Community
Relations Council (JCRC) tried to smear Prof. Pappé and accused us,
at least indirectly, of advocating anti-Semitism.[i] We write to
challenge these claims, defend our reputation, and say, loudly and
clearly, we will not be intimidated by these shameful tactics.

Before Prof. Pappé had uttered a word, the
JCRC issued a public statement calling him a "discredited" historian
and a purveyor of hatred. Both of these claims are demonstrably
false.

Prof. Pappé is one of the most well-respected
and prolific scholars on the history of the Middle East conflict…

The JCRC is right about one thing: Prof. Pappé
opposes the violent form of Zionism that justifies the ethnic
cleansing of Arab people—and denies them their rights. His
opposition is not born out of hatred of his own people, but out of
love. Prof. Pappé dreams of an Israel in which all are free and safe
from violence, including Palestinian Arabs. He advocates democracy:
one person, one vote.

In the ultimate manifestation of the Orwellian
inversion, Waismel presents Israel as the ultra-religious fanatical
nation and the genocidal Shi'ite terrorocracy of Iran as secular,
progressive and accommodating.

In
the NYT article, Waismel draws what he considers similarities and
moral equivalence between Israel and the current Iranian regime.
Since Waismel-Manor is so obsessed with superficial looks, it's not
surprising he tries to portray the mullah terrorocracy in Iran as
moving forward in an increasingly secular world to accommodate the
West. According to Waismel-Manor, the whole problem is the
theocratic reactionary regime in …. ISRAEL!
…
In contrast, Israel, which funds Waismel's cushy job at Haifa
University, is ever the ultra-religious fanatical nation controlled
by Orthodox Jews, a country headed toward confrontation with the
secular oriented Iran. What's more, he feels American Jews in the
Diaspora are losing interest in Israel due to assimilation and
disenchantment with those needlessly religious Jews, a manifestation
which fuels a BDS (Boycott Israel) movement against the Jewish state
that he insists is growing more powerful every day.

Adel Hidmi started his PhD at Hebrew U after serving his first
prison term for terrorism. Hidmi was caught and sentenced to a
second jail term for continuing his terrorist activities during his
studies. After finishing his second sentence, Hidmi was returned to
the
Dept of Medicinal Chemistry. Hebrew U sees nothing wrong in
accrediting a terrorist with an advanced degree in Chemistry.

Hebrew University awarded a
twice-convicted terrorist, Adel Hidmi, with a doctorate in
chemistry.

A resident of East
Jerusalem, Hidmi has been convicted for his involvement with
terrorist groups, most recently, following his assistance in
plotting a suicide bombing.

Hidmi was sentenced to
ten months in prison in 1992 when he was exposed as having a role
within terrorist organizations. He began working towards his
doctorate several years after his first release at Jerusalem's
Hebrew University. According to Israeli newspaper Maariv, Hidmi
lived a double life as a chemistry student and terrorist networker
during the time.

… Hidmi was approached
by two Palestinians in Ramallah who asked him to help locate a
'willing' suicide bomber. Hidmi had agreed, despite having several
academic papers to complete, and successfully returned to the men
with a participant who was more than content to assist them.

Hidmi was arrested by
Israeli police three days before the scheduled attack in Jerusalem.
…
"The University does not prohibit those with criminal backgrounds
from studying with its gates. The work of Adel Hidmi – who completed
serving his sentence – was considered academically worthy and he met
all the requirements to receive a doctorate degree…" stated a
University-issued press release.

Hebrew
University - Marxist Anti-Zionist Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political
Science) Calls for Destruction of the Israeli Economy

Sternhell demands "external intervention"
to force Israel to capitulate to the agenda of the Far Left and
to end "occupation".

A
radical change will not happen here as long as the present regime
does not bring about a major national crisis. A failure such as
Operation Protective Edge is not enough, since the heavy price of
that conflict was paid primarily by the Palestinians.

Therefore, the realistic alternative lies in
external intervention that will be massive enough to shake Israelis
out of the placidity of their comfortable lives.

Only when everyone among us can feel the price
of the occupation in their flesh, will the end to blue-and-white
colonialism and apartheid come. Only when the economy is hit in a
way that affects the overall standard of living, or when security is
undermined as a result of a serious threat to American interests in
the region, will the real treatment for eliminating the occupation
and guaranteeing our future begin.

Ben Gurion University - David Newman (Dean of Social
Sciences) Blames the Critics of the Left for Territorial Irredentism and
McCarthyism in Ultimate Far-Leftist 'Newspeak'

Newman defends the problematic monolithic far-leftist school of
critical "thought" in the Dept of Political Science which he
founded. Newman bleats about the silencing of critical voices while
attempting to silence those who would criticize Newman and the
far-left.

There
couldn't have been a better example of this sort of electioneering
newspeak than the Facebook site of Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali
Bennett. In a carefully planned video, posted just a few minutes
after a visit to Ben-Gurion University last week, Bennett
interviewed a second-year student and right-wing political activist
at the university. Using a well-worn extremist right-wing mantra of
recent years, Bennett used his Facebook site to make false
statements about the university and its faculty as a means of
advancing his own political agenda.
…
Bennett's new political stooge, Ronen Shoval, who made his name by
heading up the right-wing Im Tirtzu movement, has spent most of his
time attacking Ben-Gurion University by falsifying and misleading
the general public about the educational and research activities of
this prestigious institution.

It is the newspeak and lies which Im Tirtzu, Bennett and like-minded
people have spread in recent years and their attempt to silence
voices that do not toe their party line which have done such
enormous international damage and harm to Israel's reputation as a
place of academic freedom and freedom of speech.
…
Their extremist right-wing policies, aimed at the formal annulment
of the Oslo Accords, the extension of Israeli sovereignty over the
entire West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and the attempt to legislate a
stringent definition of Jewish citizenship would, if ever
implemented, deal a death blow to Israel's international reputation
and would serve to break those few remaining ties of support with
its most strategic partner, the USA – if Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu hasn't already achieved that on their behalf.
…
Just as the earliest Zionists mistakenly believed that they could
create a new Jewish identity through the image of the new secular
Hebrew farmer divorced from their cultural and religious roots, so
too Bennett believes that he can create a new Jewish identity
through the means of a right-wing territorial irredentism and
McCarthyism which, in the long term, will cause great damage to
Israel's security and image. The only difference between these two
vastly contrasting and alternative visions is that the earliest
Zionists, the vast majority of whom were secular, laid the
foundation for the creation of the State of Israel and a Jewish
Homeland, while Bennett and his right-wing allies are chipping away
at these same foundations in a way which, if pursued much further,
will bring about the eventual dismantlement of the state.

Tel Aviv University - Shlomo Sand (Dept of History)
Canceled by the University of Nice

Tel Aviv University's worst anti-Semite gets the bum's rush in the
Riviera, however, Sand continues to be a source of inspiration to
those who would besmirch Israel

Already
banned (effectively) from the Maison des Associations on Nice's
Place Garibaldi two years ago, Shlomo Sand is now silenced in the
place where we would least have expected it: the university!
…
The Israeli government has just committed acts against the
Palestinian population that the Russell Tribunal on Palestine called
war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to genocide.
Israel society in its majority approves of these crimes, partly
because it is worn down by an incessant propaganda that denies
Palestinians their dignity and their rights.
…
The UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace) denounces these attacks on
freedom of expression, which serve only to cover up for the
destruction of Palestine that is currently underway. It demands that
Shlomo Sand be able to speak freely at the university.

Ben Gurion University –
Li'l Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) is Back, and Writing on
Pro-Jihad Anti-Semitic Counterpunch Website

Gordon denounces use of drones because they
prevent the soldiers using them from being killed in combat.

Just
as importantly, drones change the ethics of war. According to the
new military morality, to kill while exposing one's life to danger
is bad; to take lives without ever endangering one's own is good.
Bradley Jay Strawser, a professor of philosophy at the US naval
Postgraduate school in California, is a prominent spokesperson of
the "principle of unnecessary risk." It is, in his view, wrong to
command someone to take an unnecessary risk, and consequently it
becomes a moral imperative to deploy drones.

Exposing the lives of one's troops was never
considered good, but historically it was believed to be necessary.
Therefore dying for one's country was deemed to be the greatest
sacrifice and those who did die were recognized as heroes. The drone
wars, however, are introducing a risk-free ethics of killing. What
is taking place is a switch from an ethics of "self-sacrifice and
courage to one of self-preservation and more or less assumed
cowardice."

Sand
attacks the Charlie Hedbo victims and insinuates that the French got
what they deserved because of their neo-colonial war on terror.

Already, in
2006, I had perceived as pure provocation the drawing of Mohammed
decked in a turban in the form of a bomb. This is not so much a
caricature against Islamists as a stupid conflation of Islam with
Terror; it's on a par with identifying Judaism with money!
…
At the moment, and particularly after this terrible massacre, my
sympathy goes to the Muslims who reside in ghettos adjacent to the
metropolises, who are at considerable risk of becoming the second
victims of the murders perpetrated at Charlie Hebdo and at
the Hyper Casher
supermarket…

Moreover, and
knowing that one's writings always occur in context, how to not
raise the fact that, for more than a year, so many French troops are
present in Africa to 'combat the jihadists', when no serious debate
has taken place in France on the usefulness or the damage of these
military interventions? The colonial gendarme of yesteryear, who
carries an incontestable responsibility in the chaotic heritage of
[arbitrary] borders and regimes, is today 'recalled' to reinstall
'law and order' by means of its latterday neo-colonial gendarmerie.
…
Of course, for an assassin to kill in cold blood innocent and
unarmed people it is necessary to be cruel and perverse. But it is
necessary to be hypocritical or stupid to close one's eyes on the
particulars that have provided the foundations of this tragedy.

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law)
Cheering on the ICC LAWfare Against Israel

ICC
inquiry is a game changer for Israel
The International Criminal Court will consider four issues in
examining whether Israel has a case to answer for its actions in the
Palestinian territories.
…
In this context, assessing the objectivity of the investigations
Israel is conducting into the harm done to Gazan civilians during
Operation Protective Edge last summer will be critical: Only an
independent investigation – not one being done to shield Israelis
from prosecution in The Hague – will be considered genuine.
…
However, there is no doubt that the rules of the game have changed.
Israelis and Palestinians alike are coming, for the first time,
under the jurisdiction of an international criminal tribunal. If the
foreign minister is surprised, it's probably because he hasn't yet
internalized that Israel's legal stance regarding a variety of
issues is very far from the internationally accepted positions.

Arab
students at Haifa University stood for a moment of silence Tuesday
in memory of the "martyrs" ("shaheeds") killed and injured in the
riots in the southern Bedouin city of Rahat by what they call the
"racist regime."
…
In addition to the moment of silence, Arab students groups at Haifa
University planned two demonstrations to protest police brutality.

Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, said: "[R]adical Arab activists come
to the university with the goal of taking advantage of the campus
and turning it into an anti-democratic and anti-Israel political
hotbed."

The Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew University) and Alon
Liel (Tel Aviv University) Tag Team Petitioning to the UN to Coerce
Israel into Submission

Where does critical thinking stop and treason start?

We,
the undersigned, Israeli citizens, call upon all members of the UN
Security Council to support the proposal to fix a firm date for
terminating Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem,
and to set a time limit for negotiations between Israel and the
Palestinians. That, in the spirit of the recent proposal put forward
to the Security Council by Jordan. We believe that the continued
Israeli occupation is destructive to both Israel and Palestine. A
decision by the Security Council to set a date for ending the
occupation and to determine the parameters for negotiating a fair
and just peace, will salvage the two-state solution, and will allow
Israel and Palestine to live side by side securely in peace and
equality.

BGU agrees to host "truth commission" to document perpetration of
Israeli war crimes with the intent of "proving" the 'Israel was born
in sin' theory. Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) praises the
attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel.

The
first-ever "truth commission" in Israel, to be held on Wednesday,
will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters of the 1948
war who are expected to admit to perpetrating war crimes.
…
The commission is the latest project by Zochrot that discredits a
traditional Israeli narrative that some 750,000 Palestinians left
under orders from Arab leaders and that Israel's army acted only in
self-defence. Such beliefs have fed into the common assumption from
the Israeli public that Israel's army is the "most moral in the
world".
…
The commission will also move beyond the 1948 period and plans to
examine expulsions in the semi-desert Negev region, comprising
nearly two-thirds of Israel's landmass, for the 12 years following
the war.
…Zochrot
had been successful in forcing Israelis to recognise the Nakba and a
darker side to the 1948 war, said Neve Gordon, a politics professor
at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, where the truth commission is
to be held.

"A decade ago, if I mentioned the Nakba in a class of 150 students,
hardly any of them would have known what I meant. Now 80 or 90 per
cent would know," Gordon told MEE.

Gordon also attributed the change both to Zochrot's activities and
statements by Arab legislators representing Israel's large
Palestinian minority, comprising a fifth of the total population.
…
And with the long-awaited truth commission meeting tomorrow, yet
more layers of Israel's controversial history may be laid bare.

The controversial art display at Sapir Academic College in the
northern Negev near Sderot, which
triggered a protest when it opened to the public last Tuesday,
has reached a new low in offending Judaism in the name of "art."
…
In another shocking piece, a video shows apparently a man wearing
tefilin (phylacteries) as sandal straps on his feet, along with a
tallit (prayer shawl) - embroidered with the blessing said when
putting it on - as underwear.

The vulgar appropriation of sanctified Jewish ritual objects to
create "panties" exudes an obvious air of ridicule - furthermore, it
can't even be said that there is a clear artistic "message" of the
piece.

Ben Gurion
University - David Newman (Dean of Social Sciences) Bellyaching
about Academic Watchdog Groups

Newman, in all his "wisdom", preaches ignoring the threat posed by
the BDS Movement until it's too late. Furthermore, Newman exploits
his International Conference to promote Far-Leftist views to
international academics.

Only
last month I was privileged to host an international meeting in the
field of geopolitics, attended by almost 60 international
participants, many of them critical of Israel and its policies…
Participants were exposed to realities on the ground, including
field trips to contested areas, and to the many critical
perspectives concerning Israel's regional geopolitics – the sort of
critical perspectives which only a free and open society can
express.
…
None of this explains or justifies the boycott paranoia which has
taken over the Israeli political response during the past year. From
being largely ignored by the government and academic institutions,
the so-called boycott threat has suddenly been transformed into a
new "security threat" to Israel. Spurred on by the Strategic Unit
within the Prime Minister's Office, the threat of boycotts has taken
on a new dimension.
…
Another boycott-related event is being held this week at the Center
for Anti-Semitism studies at the Hebrew University, sponsored, among
others, by the right-wing NGO Monitor which has gone out of its way
in recent years to accuse the left-wing NGOs of aiding and abetting
boycott efforts. The Center for Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and
the Center for Study of Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem – these are the
mantras which are now being served up as boycott becomes the subject
of simplistic slogans and political agendas, avoiding the real
issues at stake.

It is not surprising that support for the traveling anti-boycott
circus was expressed by the Israel Academic Monitor (IAM), an
extremist right-wing website which spends most of its time defaming
any Israel academic who holds centrist and left-wing views. IAM has
probably done more to damage the international name and reputation
of Israel as a place of academic freedom and open dialogue than any
other right- or left-wing organization in Israel or beyond. …
It would be wise to heed the experiences of those of us who combat
boycott through dialogue and debate and through the strengthening
and expansion of scientific links between Israel and its
international partners, to engage less in politics and government-
sponsored "hasbara" exercises, and a lot more in demonstrating the
academic and scientific excellence of Israel's scientific community.

Gross whines that Isracampus and other monitors of "human rights"
NGOs are practicing McCarthyism and are a threat to democracy.

I
did not need a response to know the answer: my views were distorted
as part of a campaign to de-legitimize human rights organizations
and everyone who is active in these organizations and, in fact,
anyone that works on the issue. Today, the organizations that
"monitor" human rights organizations and academia and define
criticism as anti-Israel, attempting to delegitimize it often
through distortion, are amongst the greatest threats to the defense
of human rights and democracy in general. The
McCarthyism that characterizes these groups, and their attack on
the Goldstone Committee, is meant to terrorize those who champion
human rights and those who criticize their violation. Without
criticism and activism regarding human rights, and when the
discussion is diverted to the "messenger" and not the violations
themselves, the human rights situation will only worsen. This is a
real and present danger, and thus everyone who fears for democracy
and human right must denounce the strategy of "killing the
messenger."

Shaul Bartal compares Sand's book The Invention of the Jewish People
to the likes of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf
and has become an Arab propaganda tool "the purpose of which is to
undermine the right of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland."
Bartal accuses Sand of misrepresenting established historical facts
as lies and making questionable claims knowing full well that he
can't be fired from his tenured position. Bartal ties Sand to the
PLO, the defunct Israeli communist Rakah party, and to the pro-Arab
teaching/writing of Mahmoud Darwish, a once prominent member of the
same party. Bartal concludes that Sand's writings are not original,
only that a Jew agreed to write such anti-Semitic trope.

Since
the initial publication of The Invention of the Jewish People five
years ago,[1]
every interview with the Tel Aviv University historian has achieved
great popularity in Arab media. Headlines refer to his name
endlessly though his theories are anything but new and have long
been popular in the Arab world, just as The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion and Mein Kampf have been widely distributed in the Arab
language for many years.[2]
In essence, Sand's book has become a plank of Palestinian and Arab
propaganda, the purpose of which is to undermine the right of the
Jewish people to its ancestral homeland.
…
The unique aspect of Sand's book thus is not its content but rather
its context. Sand's innovation is that he, a Jewish professor of
history from a leading "Zionist" university, step-by-step, in
beautifully phrased Hebrew, justifies and approves all the
Palestinian historical claims. It is no surprise that The Invention
of the Jewish People became a major best-seller in the Arab world
and is treasured by Palestinians.

The damage caused by The Invention stems from its misrepresentation
of established historical facts as lies. … So the Jews as a nation
have no real historical claim to the territory of the State of
Israel, including Jerusalem. That this ignores millennia of Jewish
theological focus on the ideas of return and the place of Jerusalem
is obvious. … The Jewish people, according to Sand, were never
exiled and—in distinction to Zionists—the majority of Jews have
adopted this myth for no reason.[12]
…
In Maher Sharif's editorial, "Shlomo Sand and the Invention of the
Jewish People,"[18]
the author, a member of the
Palestinian People's Party, the reincarnation of the Israeli
communist Rakah party, praised Sand's creation, specifically the
French version entitled How the Jewish Nation Was Invented, from the
Torah to Zionism. The Rakah context is vital. Sand's conclusions are
directly related to his political stand as an ex-Rakah activist, his
familial background, and his connections and friendship with the
famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish was also a Rakah
activist until he left Israel in 1970 and joined the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon.[19]
…
With great appreciation, Sharif analyzed each chapter in the book
and agreed with Sand's historical analysis. Sand's conclusions are
not new and are accepted in every branch and form of the communist
movement, both in Israel and the territories. So, Sand's book is, in
effect, a product of the communist Rakah party.
…
The newspaper quotes Sand as saying that "there is a greater
possibility that the Hamas fighters are the descendants of King
David than the possibility that he [Shlomo Sand] could be the
descendant of David."[22]
…
In other words, Israel was at fault for the situation because it had
not been willing to declare the 1967 borders as final. According to
Sand, Israel's refusal to accept the Arab League plan was enough to
deny it the right to self-defense and justified the attacks on its
citizens.
…
When asked about Hamas's continuing rocket fire despite the fact
that Israel had left the Gaza Strip, Sand replied that Hamas had the
right to continue firing rockets into Israel until the West Bank was
completely freed from Israeli "occupation":

Dennis Prager, the renown US author and
moralist, exposes the British Stagnant Duo and their Anti-Israel
Propaganda. Shlaim with his "Derisionist History" believes that
Hezbollah has the right to attack Israeli civilians. Pappe makes
claims of alleged Israeli ethnic cleansing and genocide of Arabs in
Gaza, to which he pledges to prevent.

I
encountered this at the University of Oxford … two virulently
anti-Israel spokesmen. One of them was Avi Shlaim, an expatriate
Israeli, who has devoted his life to using his professorship at
Oxford to promote anti-Israel activism.
…
Here are some examples of what Shlaim said to hundreds of Oxford
students:
…
"[Israel] is no longer a democracy. ... There is another word to
describe the situation — apartheid."
"These military operations [of Israel] are cruel acts of state
terrorism."
"The Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation, and Hamas
is the vanguard of this resistance."

… [Shlaim] uses his high academic position in
the U.K. to announce that Hamas is the victim, and the Jewish state
— which he regularly labels an apartheid and terrorist state — is
the oppressor. He had previously written… "I do believe that
Hezbollah has the right to target Israeli civilians."

Benny Morris, professor of Middle Eastern
history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the most prominent
of Israel's "New Historians," … has rejected Shlaim as a colleague
and even as a competent historian… [Morris] labeled Shlaim's work "Derisionist
History."

Another
example of a Jew hurting other Jews is Ilan Pappé, a professor at
the University of Exeter in the U.K., where he is director of the
university's European Centre for Palestine Studies. He and Shlaim
tour Europe vilifying Israel.
…
One of his books is titled "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," and
he is a leader in the European movement to boycott Israeli
universities and academics. In July 2014, he wrote in a piece titled
"Israel's Incremental Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto," published by the
violent Islamist website The Electronic Intifada:

… "This is what I can pledge — to work to
prevent the next stage in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the
genocide of Palestinians in Gaza."

Tzahor is all for politics on campus as long as it is Leftist
incitement and sedition. Tzahor justifies the subversion and
believes there is "more than one truth".

The
academia cannot be separated from politics. The academia's very
essence expresses political thought.
…
And so, since its inception to this very day, the academia has been
suspected of subversion – and rightfully so. The academia is
subversive because pursuing the truth undermines the current
situation and searches for a different truth through research and
studies.
…
The main reason for encouraging political activity at Sapir stemmed
from the principle of pursuing the truth and the assumption that
there is sometimes more than one truth.

Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum
(Dept of Pharmaceutical Studies) Wants to Suppress the Sovereignty
of Israeli Voters by Having Europe Recognize Palestine

Although
there are no signs saying "only Israelis allowed" or "no entrance
for Palestinians", restrictions are clearly enforced by barriers,
fences, walls, or armed soldiers. It is now up to the European Union
and others to secure the future of Israel as a democratic state, as
it should and must remain. Those who really care for Israel should
raise their hands in support of recognising Palestine and should not
be deterred by the pressure and warnings of Netanyahu's government,
which is captive to the religious-nationalist settlers and their
supporters. Further steps may be required in the future, to protect
and benefit Israel's democracy and to confront those who are
currently undermining it.

Hebrew
University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science) Dons a
Palestinian Kaffiya to Attack the Cabal of Too-Powerful Right-Wing
Jews in America

Only
a small violent and vocal minority in Israel is holding us
Palestinians by the throat, concomitantly choking Israeli
society while trying to convince everyone that we are still
fighting the battles of the 1940s
…
"At this point the United States, other than on its campuses, is
lost to the Palestinians – right-wing Jews have too much money
and influence there."

Sapir College allows student "art exhibit" with calls to
murder Jews and liberate 'Palestine' with "blood
and fire". Ronen Shoval, 'Im Tirtzu' head, files complain with
Police. Sapir College's reply - all is good under freedom of speech
and academic freedom.

Im Tirzu head Dr. Ronen Shoval has filed a complaint, through his
campaign operatives, against Sapir Academic College with the Israel
Police.

Shoval accuses the school, located in the northwestern
Negev desert near Sderot, of stirring up incitement by displaying
their current exhibit.

The exhibit features works of art containing the
expressions: "Kill the Jews," "Daash [Islamic State]," and "With
blood and fire we will redeem Palestine."
…
"It is ridiculous that the freedom of expression by the extreme left
gets broad legitimacy, while the national camp suffers from being
shut up."
…
Sapir Academic College responded to Shoval, saying "Free speech and
free thought exist at Sapir Academic College in an effort to foster
pluralism and tolerance. We expose to the faculty and students a
variety of public opinions as part of their education."

Hebrew
University - Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical Studies) Can't
Conduct a Debate without Having a Prissy Fit

A few years back Amiram Goldblum issued a
demand that the Israeli Ministry of the Interior act to prevent
Evangelical Christians from entering Israel. Writing on the
"Academia" chat list for Israeli professors, Goldblum's problem with
them was that the Evangelicals were too pro-Israel.

At the time, Sergio Tezza, another member of
the Academia list, challenged Goldblum's bigoted comments about
Evangelicals.

Goldblum then responded with the typical
infantile prissy fits he so often performs whenever his political
extremism is challenged and wrote in his pidgin English:

"And
you, if you ever have the courage to get near me, I invite you to
come nearer, and then i'll have the pleasure of spitting in your
face, because you are not even worth a real punch in the nose."

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law),
Promoter of Transvestites and Inventor of the "Pinkwashing" Idiocy,
Now Demands that the Sexual Orientation of Every Public Figure be
Exposed and Publicized

The
difference between the attitude toward the female MK and the male MK
shows how behind the claim of privacy, even if claimed out of good
intentions, hides a closet. That is part of liberal homophobia,
which is built on the division between public heterosexuality and
private homosexuality and bans the mention of homosexuality unless
the individual mentioned gives a full confession in the weekend
newspapers.

The discussion in recent weeks following
journalist and writer Gal Uchovsky's call on the Labor Party
chairman to give MK X a choice – come out of the closet or get out
of the Knesset – misses the real story, the story of "inning" not
outing, and of the hypocritical attitude of the media toward sexual
orientation.

Indeed, it is a person's right not to reveal
his or her sexuality. But the interesting question is not whether
the MK is exercising his right, but rather whether he is doing the
right thing. Many believe that an elected official should act
differently. One might also wonder where the strange idea comes from
that a person who has come out of the closet in the past and spoke
about it publicly has the right to expect that the issue will remain
confidential once he is elected to the Knesset.

TAU Officials authorize a pro-terror rally by
Far-Leftist activists just two days after the gruesome terrorist
attack on morning worshipers in Har Nof. The Far-Leftist activists
justify the rally as part of the "resistance" and dismiss their
incitement as "Israeli semantics". 'Im Tirtzu' counter-protest
activists persuade organizers to reschedule the pro-terror rally and
demand TAU officials to curtail far-leftist incitement.

Arab
student groups at
Tel Aviv University planned to hold a rally on campus "in memory
of the martyrs and against the occupation" at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday
- until a counter-rally led them to reschedule for Sunday.

… The protest was largely organized by the Im Tirtzu student group;
roughly 200 students and activists demonstrated at the entrance to
the campus, with some bearing prayer shawls featuring red stains to
symbolize the attack on the Jerusalem synagogue this Tuesday.

Dr. Ronen Shoval, founder of the Im Tirtzu movement that organized
the counter-protest, said "the Arab incitement on campus continues
unabated. Arabs students rioting on campus should not come as a
surprise. Israel has a serious crisis of sovereignty and should
revoke the citizenship of anyone who is not acting as a citizen… Any
delay in dealing with incitement may allow verbal violence to become
physical violence."

Jabar Bassel, a member of the Arab communist Hadash student group
and one of the organizers of the rescheduled event, told Walla! …
"We don't see martyrs as terrorists… Suicide terrorists are those
who were killed due to the continuing conflict, they are Palestinian
resistance fighters… According to Israeli semantics it's as if we're
coming out against the state… they may have thrown rocks but they
fought in their territory, in the territory of the future state on
'67 borders - they are fighting for their freedom."

University
of Haifa - Arik Shapira (Dept
of Music) Composing "Music" for the Jihad

Recently
promoted to a full professorship in Music at the University of
Haifa, Professor Arik Shapira is striking a discordant tone with the
rest of the Israeli public who through their taxes pay his salary.
Shapira isn't just sympathetic to the Palestinians, he is
sympathetic to Hamas and rubs elbows with the
Free Gaza Movement to boot.
…
In a conversation with the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, the composer
said, "This is a public that I despise. They didn't contribute
anything in the years before the rise of the State... This is what
they do, these scoundrels, these settlers. I abhor them."
…
Shapria's politics probably did more to earn him the Israel Prize in
1994 at the start of Oslo than any talent for music. He composes a
lot of "political music," or "music" that has an anti-Israel far
leftist political message.
…
In 1989 during the First Intifada and before Oslo, Shapira wrote, "I
have never been so frustrated in my life. I can't bear the political
situation here. The country is moving toward
quasi-fascism—ultra-nationalistic, immoral and repulsive place to
live in. …. I can't stand the idea of being introduced as an
'Israeli composer.' … If I were younger and bolder I would have left
the pencil and bought a pistol. There are plenty of mad dogs barking
here."
…
Naturally, Shapira has signed on to a "manifesto"
showing his support of boycotting Israel and
even his
own university by Israeli musical academics. He also loves to
petition against Israel, especially against Israeli "occupation" of
Gaza. Of course, Gaza has not been "occupied" since 2005, but that
did not stop Shapira from
signing a petition protesting the "occupation" that calls on the
EU and UN to end Israeli occupation there.

Another scandal in BGU's troubled
Department of Politics. A student was kicked out of class after
showing political solidarity with the 'Im Tirtzu' student movement.
The University's response: Blame the student and impose disciplinary
actions.

Student:
"After about 20 minutes in class, [lecturer] asked us to say
something about ourselves. I said that I was a member of Im Tirtzu…
Mine was the last introduction and immediately afterwards, she
insisted in a disrespectful tone that I close my computer – which
had already been open for 20 minutes – and gave me a disgusted look.
It was no coincidence that it was after I exposed my political
affiliations."
…
Ben Gurion University: "The student was asked by the lecturer to
leave the class because of improper and unusual behavior that
contradicts the class's syllabus, following which a complaint was
filed against him with the university's academic director, in order
to bring him before a disciplinary committee."

Illouz would also have you believe that an Israeli public with a
90% governmental approval rate is just too anti-democratic. Does
Illouz believe in Santa or the Easter bunny too?

Operation
Protective Edge differed from other such operations, not only
because of the scope and intensity of military power employed by
Israel – 1,865 people were killed, 415 of them children, and entire
neighborhoods and crucial civilian infrastructure were destroyed –
but also because of the political climate in which it was carried
out: According to polls conducted at the time, more than 90 percent
of the Jewish population supported the operation, a consensus that
was no doubt caused by the discovery of a network of border tunnels
that threatened the heart of Israeli society, both geographically
and politically. But even before the tunnels came to the fore,
support for the war was accompanied, strikingly, by a hitherto
marginal anti-democratic climate....

When Israeli Arab leaders called for a general strike to show their
solidarity with Gaza Palestinians and their protest against the
military operation, Lieberman urged Israelis to boycott businesses
belonging to any Arabs who participated in the strike....

Third, the residents of the territories constitute a "captive
market," one that benefits exporters and importers in Israel.
Economist Shir Hever [who is NOT an economist – Isracampus] claimed,
in a 2011 interview in Haaretz, that Israel still exploits the
Palestinian market, which inevitably has little choice but to
purchase and import products from Israeli companies almost
exclusively. According to Sam Bahour, who serves as a board member
of a leading Palestinian bank, Palestinians import more than 85
percent of their goods and services from Israel.

Yemini dissects the
petition of Amiram Goldblum (Hebrew University) and Alon Liel
(Tel Aviv University) and concludes that it is nothing more than
Arab rejectionist propaganda.

Their
appeal doesn't contain a single word on the Palestinian demand for
the right of return. It doesn't demand recognition of the formula of
two states for two peoples (as opposed to recognition of two
states). There isn't even a hint of criticism of the Palestinians'
rejectionist attitude. There's no call for an end to the incitement.
Nothing.

Their appeal looks like a Palestinian propaganda leaflet. And as
such, their appeal does nothing to serve peace, and primarily
reinforces the Palestinian rejectionist approach. It also offers a
tailwind to anti-Semitic elements in Europe.

Gross, complaining that the Supreme Court is too passive, demands
that terrorist-collaborator Zoabi remain in Knesset, however, he has
never objected to the bans on rightwing groups running for election.
It would seem that Gross believes no leftist rhetoric can be
sufficiently unethical to cross the line into treason or incitement
and rejects the Knesset's prerogative to enforce disciplinary
sanctions on one of their own. Finally, Gross would abandon
Democracy, and the separation of powers therein, to have the Courts
exceed its jurisdiction and enforce Gross' Judicratic ultra-leftist
utopia.

Knesset
members who do not like the views of other MKs do not have the right
to impose sanctions because of those opinions, as the High Court
should have made clear.

Last week's rejection of petitions by MK Haneen Zoabi isn't the
first time the High Court of Justice has declined to intervene on
the issue of Knesset sanctions imposed on the Balad MK for what it
saw as her extremist rhetoric.
…
The judicial passivism that the High Court of Justice exhibited on
the previous instance with Zoabi paved the way for the unprecedented
Knesset sanction against her this time. And the failure to intervene
this time around gives a green light to Knesset members, sending a
message that they are allowed to do harm to a parliamentary
colleague whom they love to hate.
…
The latitude the High Court gave the Ethics Committee to exercise
its own judgment sounds in theory like good reasoning. But in
practice, what is happening is that Knesset members are exploiting
the political power of the majority to hinder the minority. And the
High Court of Justice is not filling the breach.

It would have been appropriate for the court to rule that the Ethics
Committee has absolutely no authority to rule on political
expressions, and instead can deal only with conduct unbecoming in
the Knesset itself, or with unethical conduct on the part of Knesset
members – such as inappropriate statements directed at one another.
…
[T]he High Court should have used the opportunity to make it crystal
clear to the Knesset that it cannot impose sanctions against MKs
simply because their views outrage the majority of the members of
the house.

Rosen-Zvi, along with other Tenured
Extremists, opposes an art exhibit by Hebron-based artists as a
"political act designed to sanitize settlements".

According
to reports in The Jerusalem Post's sister paper Ma'ariv, members of
the university's academic staff – such as Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi, the
head of the Talmud program in the department of Hebrew culture
studies, and Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, chairman of the department
of Jewish philosophy, Talmud and Kabbala – have complained to the
library's management that featuring this art is a political act
designed to sanitize settlements, particularly those in and around
Hebron.

Certain assumptions have to be made to take on
this sort of position. One must take as a given that art and
politics are inseparable and that an artist's political views taint
beyond redemption his or her artistic works. At the very least, one
must believe that simply facilitating display of this art is
tantamount to legitimizing the political views of the artist or of
those living in the place from which he or she comes.
…
What is truly reprehensible about the behavior of Breaking the
Silence, Rosen-Zvi and Lorberbaum is their attempt to equate
settlers with an evilness so great it taints their artistic work.
The reality is that many of the worst aspects of what is referred to
as the "occupation" are the direct result of Palestinians' decisions
to resort to violence and terrorism instead of dialogue and
compromise.
…
We hope the management of Tel Aviv University's central library has
the decency to stand up to pressure from radicals attempting to
stifle freedom of artistic expression.

Tel Aviv University - Shlomo
Sand (Dept of History) Ceases Being a Jew

At
this point in my own life, in the early 21st century, I feel in turn
a moral obligation to break definitively with tribal Judeocentrism.
… I identified as part of an oppressed and rejected minority. … I
stubbornly remained a Jew who had accepted this identity on account
of persecutions and murderers, crimes and their victims.

Now, having painfully become aware that I have undergone an
adherence to Israel, been assimilated by law into a fictitious
ethnos of persecutors and their supporters, and have appeared in the
world as one of the exclusive club of the elect and their acolytes,
I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew.
…
I am aware of living in one of the most racist societies in the
western world. Racism is present to some degree everywhere, but in
Israel it exists deep within the spirit of the laws…

To live in such a society has become increasingly intolerable to me…
I am often even ashamed of Israel, particularly when I witness
evidence of its cruel military colonisation, with its weak and
defenceless victims who are not part of the "chosen people".
…
I do not go to synagogues to dissipate this nostalgia, because they
pray there in a language that is not mine, and the people I meet
there have absolutely no interest in understanding what being
Israeli means for me.

Professor
Amiram Goldblum, a senior lecturer at Hebrew University and
co-founder of the extreme leftist organization Peace Now, has made
use of his Facebook page to tear into the nationalist camp, the
Jewish Home faction and religious Zionism.

"Let someone dare say that this is not Judeo-Nazi youth," wrote
Goldblum next to a video of the "rikudgalim" flag dance celebration
on Jerusalem Day. "The Arabs are under curfew in the streets of the
Old City. The apartheid that exists beyond the Green Line is in
Jerusalem now. Jewish youths are raised on the monstrous style that
we have seen in other places."
…
Prior to Jerusalem Day, Goldblum said that the right wing camp makes
the historic day "look and sound like the neo-Nazi march through
Skokie... let the call resound: fascists of the world, unite – the
Golden Dawn from Greece, the religious right in Israel, brothers in
fascism."

Hebrew University -
Mister Apartheid, Amiram Goldblum (Dept of Pharmaceutical
Sciences), Takes to Social Media to
Continue his International Call to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty

Goldblum
Undermining Israeli Sovereignty with ImpunityGoldblum exploits the French Parliament decision to impose a
Palestinian Terror-State in the Israeli Heartland in order to
continue the
promotion of his proposal for imposing an International Final
Solution to the Jewish problem.

Vive la France ! We hope that the decision by the Assemblee
Nationale would spread over Europe and the EU parliament as the
spirit of the French revolution spread against the tyranny of the
Monarchs and the Clergy 200 years ago ! Great victory for the
decision to recognize Palestine side by side with Israel. It
increases the optimism for a UN security Council resolution on this
issue without US veto… The negotiations should take place between
the two parties - the EU and the US - to suggest a solution and to
demand that Israel and Palestine would accept it, or...

Goldblum
Reasons that Undermining Israel is the Highest Form of Zionism

KAF TET BENOVEMBER, 29 NOVEMBER, the most important date for the
creation and existence of Israel, when the world nations voted in
favor of its construction. Now it is time to complete that decision
and recognize also the existence of Palestine side-by-side with
Israel, and to have International involvement in Jerusalem to
prevent Israelis and Palestinians from clashing over temple Mount.
Calls by Israelis to the EU and the US to recognize Palestine is the
ultimate patriotic action for the future existence and well being of
Israel

Goldblum
Using his Facebook Page to Undermine Israeli Existence and Promote
European Recognition of the Nonexistent "Palestinian State"

Thank you Spain ! Another parliament voted for recgonizing the
Palestinian state ! Spain is important also because it will soon be
in the UN security council ! French Assemblee Nationale will vote on
November 28 ! Israeli citizens, wherever you are , sign our call of
support to the parliaments that initiated a vote of recgonition[sic]

Goldblum
Calling for Boycott and Sanctions of Israeli MKs

This is a call to democracies in Europe and America: you MUST
BOYCOTT and SANCTION those members of the KNESSET who propose
APARTHEID laws !! … Do not allow those MKs whose names appear in the
Jerusalem Post piece below to put their feet in any of your
countries ! If you are REAL FRIENDS of Israel, this is the only way
to reverse the moral disintegration of Zionism by the Israeli right
wing… Sanction them, boycott them, block their moves into the free
world !

Ilan Pappe
(University of Exeter) and Shlomo Sand (Tel Aviv University) Join
their Judeophobic International Marxists in the Undermining of the
Jewish State

The European Marxist Left has traditionally
dismissed the rampant anti-Semitism inherent in the culture of
European socialism and fascism as "a means to other political ends"
that masquerades as "anti-Zionism". The American Left blames the
Jews for the aggression they face in a classic anti-Semitic
proposition. For the Jewish Marxists, the creation of a Jewish
Nation-State has been a slap in the face to their Marxist views.

This connection between Marxism and
Judeophobia has brought Pappe and Sand to express their "perverse
form of humanism", "systematic denigration of Israel", and "Palestinophilism".

This
analysis is now peddled by a growing numbers of leftist,
anti-Zionist academics within Israel as well. Such rhetoric,
divorced from historical truth and geopolitical reality, negates any
possibility of reform or redress concerning genuine grievances.
Shlomo Sand, a historian at Tel Aviv University, represents one
particularly virulent strain of such "negationism" with his claim
that both the concept of "Jewish People" and of Eretz Israel ("the
land of Israel") are mere fictions or Zionist inventions. This
former Israeli Trotskyist militant, trained in France (where his
pseudoscientific delegitimization of Israel has enjoyed great
popularity) has revived long-discredited theories—such as Arthur
Koestler's deranged notion that Ashkenazi Jews sprang from Khazars
who converted in the 10th century C.E.—to sever the Jews from their
biblical ancestors. Wholly irreligious himself, Sand insists that
Jews are linked by religion alone; he categorically rejects the
Jewish identity of Israel and has announced to the world that he no
longer considers himself a Jew. For Sand, Zionism can be understood
only as the distillation of racism itself.

Small wonder that the worst enemies of the
Jewish state regard Sand's work as invaluable. What could be better
than an Israeli intellectual undermining the very roots of Jewish
history, religion, cultural memory, and national identity in the
land of Zion? …

In
the "post-Zionist" narratives of Israeli historians such as Ilan
Pappé (formerly an active member of the Israeli Communist Party,
Hadash), the entire Jewish national project is a nightmarish tale of
occupation, expulsion, discrimination, and institutional racism
perpetrated by alien and demonic Zionist invaders. In such accounts,
the Palestinians are the permanent victims; Israelis are forever the
"brutal colonizers." According to Pappé, the "Zionist" ethnic
cleansing of Palestine was already in full swing in 1948. It was a
long-premeditated crime that has been escalating ever since. We
increasingly find Jewish anti-Zionists presenting their certificates
of divorce from the Jewish state, issuing petitions against Israel's
"apartheid wall" (the security fence to defend against Palestinian
suicide bombers), and denouncing Israel's allegedly racist
oppression of local Arabs. At the same time, "progressive" Jews seem
indifferent to the suffering of Israeli civilians—the innocent
victims of so many savage Palestinian atrocities—including the
recent murders of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron. … This is a
perverse form of humanism in which the systematic denigration of
Israel coexists with a wholly romanticized and abstract "Palestinophilism"
devoid of any critical thought or normal human solidarity.

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law)
Explaining Why Israel Should Not be a Jewish state

Gross, taking time time off from promoting transgendered cross
dressers, has no problem of course with Palestine being an Arabs
only and Moslems only state.

In
contemporary international law, it customary to talk about
"external" self-determination, meaning the right of nations living
under foreign rule to independence, and "internal"
self-determination, or the notion that states represent multiple
populations. The declaration in the proposed law that "the right to
exercise national self-determination in Israel is exclusive to the
Jewish people" undermines the notion that a large national minority
in Israel is also entitled to representation and not just
"individual" rights. In that respect, the proposal is a step toward
greater discrimination against the country's Arab population, or
perhaps toward Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's plan – to remove
that population from within the country's borders.

Ben Gurion
University - PA Leader who Promotes Religious War to Speak about
Religious Tolerance at BGU

Yoram Meital,
Chairman of the Chaim Herzog Center that is
hosting Mahmoud Al-Habbash, will address the session. The
'Professors for a Strong Israel' have
protested the summit and called for the termination of the
meeting due to the vehement anti-Israel incitement by Al-Habbash.

Mahmoud
Abbas' Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash
has been invited to speak tomorrow, Dec. 1, 2014, at Ben Gurion
University on "Religious Aspects of the Israeli - Palestine conflict
and the need for religious tolerance." This is striking since for
years, Al-Habbash has been promoting conflict and war with Israel in
the name of Islam, as reported by
Palestinian Media Watch.

Al-Habbash recently taught that
Islam prohibits accepting Israel's existence because the "entire
land of Palestine" is Islamic waqf. As such, he forbids making peace
with Israel because he believes Islamic law prohibits "facilitat[ing]
the occupation of even a millimeter of it", i.e., "the entire land
of Palestine":
…
Al-Habbash has recently said that the … occupation [Israel] is the
one that will leave":
…
Finally, last year, Al-Habbash said that the entire peace process
with Israel is a
deceptive process modeled after Muhammad's Treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
Although the Muslim Prophet signed a 10-year peace treaty with the
tribes of Mecca, "in less than two years, the Prophet returned and,
based on this treaty, he conquered Mecca. This is the example, this
is the model," explained Al-Habbash in a sermon. [Official PA TV,
July 19, 2013]

Three
students who attend Ariel University and live in the center of the
country arranged to meet to study in the Tel Aviv U. library simply
because it was convenient. When they arrived and showed the
university identification, they were told they must pay 30 shekels
each. They asked to speak with the head of the library, who told
them the same thing.

When asked to comment, school officials told Yisrael Hayom that it
has an agreement with universities around the country regarding the
library which does not include Ariel. When Ariel U. officials were
asked, they explain they were never approached by Tel Aviv U. When
Yisrael Hayom probed the matter with other universities around
Israel, it learned there is no agreement with any of them regarding
the use of the library in Tel Aviv U. and it appears the Ariel U.
students were banned simply because the school is located in the
Shomron, which does not jibe with the Tel Aviv U. leftist agenda.

Hirschfeld, seeing conspiracies and corruption in every nook and
cranny, claims that the Settlers are taking over the military and
are colluding with other right-wing extremist to dominate public
discourse. Throwing a tantrum, Hirschfeld rages against Israeli
society like a pouting child who doesn't get his way, leaves the
game, and wants to take the ball too.

Although he denies it, Hirschfeld is proud to be the coward who ran
away from Israel to Berlin where the chocolate pudding is cheaper
and where the Jews are not occupiers (or are they?).

When the going gets tough…

While
Berlin is an alluring and advantageous city for economic, cultural
and geographic reasons, no less significant in an Israeli
perspective is the fact that in deciding to leave for Berlin, one
performs an act of resistance…

Although like many Israelis of my generation I was experiencing
financial difficulties, it was not my reason for leaving. Rather,
the reason was and is the feeling that there is no future in Israel.
The Israeli government does not serve the interest of the people. …
The cause is the cruel and crushing oppression of the Palestinians
in the name of an ideology that seeks to settle the entire territory
between the river Jordan and the Sea….

The oppression of the Palestinians leads to a brutalization and
corruption of Israeli society, and both are enabled by a
semi-intentional blindness on the part of the citizenry, which makes
the citizens culprits in their own exploitation as well as in the
oppression of the Palestinians…
…
The vast majority of the Israeli public elects to give power to
people who intentionally and actively demolish any possibility of a
political solution to the occupation except the creation of an
apartheid state. The continuous exploitation of the Israeli public
(manifest in the current living-expense crisis for instance) is done
in order to support the huge and corrupt security system that
intertwines with both the political and economic elite of Israel to
an extent that makes their separation impossible. … It is also done
in order to support and expand the Jewish settlement on Palestinian
lands, in which a shadow state under military authority collaborate
and support the Jewish Extreme-Right.

… The Jewish population in these areas is also not run-of-the-mill
Israelis but for the most part Jewish extremists, a large number of
whom are driven by messianic beliefs and understand the occupation
in terms of a religious conflict with Muslims or even Islam. …
Although they are a minority within Israeli society, they are
becoming increasingly more powerful and influential; forming a
substantial element of the contemporary military and political
elite.
…
And now Berlin: To immigrate here is a recognition of the
impossibility of being in Israel; of the impossibility of making a
change; of the fact that one's voice and actions have no substantial
effect…
…
The very act of leaving embodies the choice in becoming
post-Israeli: This is no longer a deviation from the Zionist
narrative along the lines of post- or anti-Zionism but rather a
breaking away from Zionism. Over the past decades 'Zionism'
underwent a right-wing appropriation that gradually replaced the
historical content of this term in a way that makes it analogous to
'Settlement.' Today to be a 'Zionist,' at least within the Israeli
public discourse, means to support the "Settlement Enterprise" of
the "Zionist-Right" and to accept this political language as a
truthful description of reality.

The 1929 Arab Riots, one of the founding tenets of Zionism, gets
rewritten by Cohen in his new book "1929 - The Zero Year of the
Jewish-Arab Conflict". However, Cohen gets caught out whitewashing
Arab incitement and violence, as well as changing order of events,
to shift the blame on the Jews.

The session was, unfortunately, quite characteristic of the sorry
state of academic scholarship on issues of the Arab-Israel (or
Jewish-Muslim) conflict. The moderator,
Dmitry Shumsky and the three other discussants -
Israel Bartal,
Vered Vinitzky-Serussi and
Raef Zarik - were all of one persuasion, to the left in varying
degrees, and cheered and applauded the book. It's not that because I
am at an opposite ideological pole that I criticise this lack of
balance. The fact is that the book came under sharp criticism by
Anita Shapiro,
Benny Morris,
Avi Becker,
Eliezer Schweid, and
others. These are not lightweights. And yet, the people at the
Hebrew University who organized the event seemingly could find no
one who disagreed with the book's scholarship, methodology or
conclusions to speak?
…
In short, Cohen's book seeks to even out the playing field by
turning events on their head, which
doesn't bother Haaretz's Uri Misgav.
…
My copy is full of notations. He deals with the attack on the
Georgian Quarter opposite the Damascus Gate and positioned on
this modern view (the two views are in opposite directions) and
attempts to suggest that Jews first attacked Arabs there rather than
Arabs who poured out of the Damascus Gate, incited by immams at the
Temple Mount, who began to sweep up the street heading for Meah
Shearim. He also tries to re-time events that also there attacks on
Arabs preceded attacks on Jews. It's as if he's a conspiracy
theorist.

Tel Aviv
University - Shlomo Sand's (Dept of History) Quest to End Jewish
Existence and Make the World Judenrein

Just
like the Haredi ideologues, Sand denies there is such a thing as
Jewish secular culture. No achievement of Jewish secularists, he
says, can be regarded as being Jewish, but is, rather, universal or
belonging to the nations where they took place. The involvement of
people of Jewish ancestry to him is totally incidental. This is
classic Haredi thinking: Judaism and Jewishness only manifest in
rabbinically prescribed religious practice – everything else is
goyishe stuff.
…
But Sand has done the opposite of what they expected of him (and
some of them have actually done themselves). Not only has he
constructed for himself a new form of Israeli identity, but he
denies these secular, progressive, non-Zionist Jews their
intellectual integrity. He ridicules those who claim to be upholding
Jewish values while criticizing Israel, and writes that they are no
different from "overt pro-Zionists."
…
There is nothing ethical about Judaism, says Sand, blasting away the
much cherished liberal notion of tikkun olam – if it's enlightened,
then it's universal, and therefore not Jewish. The long lists of
brave Jewish revolutionaries and human rights advocates so beloved
of progressive Jews mean nothing, he claims. If anything, they were
denying their parochial Jewish roots and joining a bigger and better
global brotherhood of man and woman.

Sand is the scourge of anti-Zionist secular Jews. Criticize Israel,
by all means, he tells them; but if you identify yourselves as Jews
when doing so, you're phonies. You don't get any special moral
standing just by accident of birth. You are no better than the
goyim.
…
Sand's challenge to secular Jews who refuse to be defined by
religious belief and practice is a strong and eloquent one. In the
absence of religion, he claims, there are only ersatz identities,
such as clinging to memories of persecution, which has largely
disappeared from the world. Everyone wants to be a survivor, he
says, that's the real "Holocaust industry." Or else Jewishness in
this day and age is defined by one's artificial relationship with
Israel, whether it's support or repudiation.

Hebrew University - Moshe Zimmermann (Dept of History) and his
Blitzkrieg against Zionism

Zimmermann justifies anti-Semitism as legitimate criticism, and
blames the settlers as the obstacle to peace in a review of
Zimmerann's academic career and his "Nazification of Israel".

Despite his parents' experience of fleeing the Nazis, Zimmermann
has equated IDF soldiers, settlers and
other Jews as "Nazis." But don't worry, it's merely "criticism" of
Israel, not anti-Semitism to Zimmermann's highly developed, academic
and intellectual psyche.

Alleged Palestinian-Holocaust equivalency and the "Nazification of
Israel," have become a common calumny used among anti-Israel
academics like Zimmermann. Simply put, Moshe Zimmermann is one of
the more prominent members of this blitzkrieg.
…
Zimmermann prefers to blame the settlers for the lack of peace. He
says this in an
interview in the malicious anti-Israel
leftist 972 Magazine, a European-funded web site that promotes Arab
irredentist goals over the rights of Israelis:

"Of
course, the majority of Israelis want to live in peace, enjoy life,
be prosperous, have a good time, watch the World Cup, and so on," he
says. "But there is a minority in this society that is interested in
opposing peace." He then goes on insultingly to call settler youth
in Hebron a new "Hitler jugend."

Of
course, Zimmermann would never cop to being anti-Semitic himself.
After all, how can he be, since he's a professor at Hebrew U…
Zimmermann
explains, "The moment Israel is criticized, it becomes, from the
Israeli point of view, a criticism of the Jewish people." …
Zimmermann picked up German anti-Semitism through osmosis during his
stint as an academic in Germany.

Zimmermann encourages young Israelis to
refuse to do military service and signs petitions accusing
Israel of
planning genocide and deportation of the Palestinians (such as
during the start of the war to oust Saddam Hussein).
…
He continues: "Why is it important to have a Jewish majority? Where
on earth was this phrase drawn from of a Jewish state? When was the
Jewish state invented? Who invented this idea at all?" He's not that
far off from the pseudo academic
Shlomo Sand who would have us believe Zionism was invented
solely to legitimize stealing a non-existent Arab country by the
Jews.

And he
extends his lofty interpretation of anti-Semitism as merely an
exercise in criticism … "It needs to be possible to continue to
criticize Israel's policies, and the accusation of anti-Semitism
should not be misused to automatically protect Israel from
criticism. Where will it leave us Israelis who do not agree with the
government's actions, if criticism of Israel is automatically
equated with anti-Semitism?" So in other words, let's defend the
anti-Semites and believe them when they say they are merely offering
constructive criticism even as they march Jews into the ovens.
…
These are the political and moral lessons that the good professor
Zimmermann managed to extract from the persecution of his own family
by the Nazi anti-Zionists. Zionism rescued him and his family, but
he's so cutting edge he rejects that notion and embraces
anti-Semitism to show his own uniqueness and self-sense of fairness.
This is what our universities are full of today, Moshe Zimmermanns
who don't really help make peace, but encourage the opposite with
their heads in the clouds.

From his nice safe perch in Berlin, the Motherland of Anti-Semitism,
Hirschfeld joins the paranoid Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorists and
promotes the apartheid blood libel against Israel. The conspiracies
never stop for Hirschfeld, as he blames Israel for using the
kidnapped teenagers as an excuse "to manufacture a war" with Hamas,
and inciting a full-scale intifada over the Temple Mount.

Hirschfeld justifies his treasonous use of fascist tactics to
enforce his leftist diktats because the Israeli public has undergone
"a massive shift to the right". Hirschfeld feels intimidated by the
Jewish nature of the State. He heaps all sorts of evils on the
proposed Basic Law, including interference with the leftist leaning
of the Supreme Court and the threatening of Democracy itself.

Hirschfeld promotes a feeling of helplessness and incites for
leftist violence and treason to create an Arab Terror State in the
Israeli heartland and to stop the passing of the Jewish State of
Israel into law.

Although within Israel, Bennett's piece went relatively unnoticed,
it was a momentous event, signaling the beginning of the public
unmasking of the one-sided Israeli solution, making visible a system
of apartheid that evolved over a long time, but did so in increments
and always in a way that allows those in power to deny its
existence.

… In Israel, apartheid was developed in a way that has masked its
nature, employing the imposition of martial law and military control
over the Palestinian population, to create a social and physical
separation between them and Israelis and Palestinians, while
simultaneously facilitating the seizure and settlement of
Palestinian lands.

… Rather, it occurs elsewhere – in the West Bank and East Jerusalem…
The Israeli settlers who do live in those areas … are actively and
aggressively imposing apartheid by way of "facts on the ground."

Indeed this is the special character of this apartheid: Rather than
being the foundational ideology of the state, it is an apparatus
that is seemingly extrinsic to it – a de facto system of oppression
and segregation that is wholly unspoken of in official rhetoric and
nearly all Israeli media.
…
There is little hope for those who wish to stop this process. The
political discourse in Israel is so powerfully controlled by the
right, that this government – the most right-wing in Israeli history
– is often criticized publicly for being "leftist."…

Although the rise of the extreme right in Israel has been in the
making for many years, the past year saw a massive shift to the
right not just in politics, but in society at large. This was not
merely the result of events that occurred, or of conditions that
ripened, but rather of intentional actions aimed at ushering in this
very reality.
…
The facade of a "peace process" finally collapsed five months ago,
when the kidnapping of three Israeli-Jewish teenagers was cynically
used by the government to manufacture a war. Although the Israeli
security services knew early on that the teenagers were dead, the
government claimed early on that they were alive. This was done in
order to justify the transformation of the search into a large-scale
military operation against Hamas, which created the spiral of
escalation that eventually served as the official cause of the war.
…
Although the war ended in mid-August, by late September, it was
apparent that the Israeli government was trying to incite a
full-scale intifada through aggressive steps in East Jerusalem, the
Temple Mount and the West Bank. At the same time, a full-scale media
war was initiated against the Palestinian Authority – shifting the
responsibility for the escalating violence onto Mahmoud Abbas, while
in fact agitating for more violence.
…
[T]he successful enactment of apartheid will postpone indefinitely
the creation of a Palestinian state, and shift the site of conflict
and oppression from the occupied territories to the very core of
Israeli society. This is the end of Zionism, its final result – a
Jewish state that embodies the rationale of anti-Semitism.

Svirsky documented his trek across Australia to promote BDS
awareness and presented a pro‑BDS petition to the Australian
Parliament. Svirsky's petition became the focal point for bashing
Israel in the Australian House of Representatives.

Melissa Parke, Federal Member for Fremantle, ALP, spoke strongly
tonight in the Federal Parliament in response to a petition that
urges Australia to "fully and consistently honour its obligations
under international law by excluding relations, through boycott,
divestment and sanctions, (BDS) with states, institutions and
companies – Australian, Israeli or other – that are involved in the
perpetuation of apartheid and discriminatory Israeli policies
including the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza."

The petition with 720 signatories had been presented by Dr Marcelo
Svirsky, a Jewish-Israeli academic teaching at Wollongong
University. Three weeks ago, Dr Svirsky undertook a gruelling walk
of 300 kilometres from Sydney to Canberra to gather support for this
petition.

…

So,
what has happened so far?
-A great send-off demo from Sydney Opera House with the BDS Sydney
supporters
-Thousands of drivers who saw the BDS banner on my backpack
- Random conversations with people who asked what is BDS, like today
at Penrose
…
- And finally, continue to gather signatures for the petition

…

TO
THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES

This petition of citizens and residents of Australiadraws to the attention of the
House the
critical predicament of the Palestinian People in the West Bank,
East Jerusalem and Gaza under Israeli occupation since 1967 and of
the Palestinian citizens of Israel suffering racial discrimination
since 1948. Notwithstanding UN resolutions condemning Israel's
policies as illegal, Israel continues violating international law
and human rights, expanding its colonies in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, imposing a siege on Gaza, and persisting in apartheid and
oppressive actions, policies and legislation towards the Palestinian
people under its control.

Yemini presents the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities as an
example of the unified leftist School of Thought rampant in Israeli
Academia lacking in academic standards and suppressing academic
freedom.

But lo
and behold, the most prestigious academic body in Israel, the Israel
Academy of Sciences and Humanities, organizes a conference about the
other which is characterized mainly by an exclusion of the other.

It's not
just about the ethnic origin issue. It's possible that a very small
minority of the participants are of Sephardic decent. The problem is
also about opinion and outlook and a school of thought.
…
The problem is that the Academy of Sciences has been infected with a
disease which characterizes a major part of the humanities and
social sciences departments in Israel. There is no real openness.
There is no willingness to listen to the other. Entire conferences
are dominated by participants who share the exact same opinion.

Sometimes the academic staff in a certain department or institution
is dominated by lecturers whose opinions range from radical left to
even more radical left. … It's boring. It's banal. It's definitely
not academic.

Giulio Meotti describes the Israeli Extremists who have left the
country and the fold.

A couple of years ago his book "The Invention of the Jewish People"
sparked endless debates and controversy, selling millions of copies.
Shlomo Sand, an Israeli historian who teaches at Tel Aviv
University, has just written, in the Guardian, an article titled
"How I stopped being a Jew." A statement of deep abjuration of
Judaism and Zionism.

Sand, who now spends more time in England than in Israel, is not the
first intellectual of the Israeli left who professes apostasy.

Since 2008, Ilan Pappe, former professor at the University of Haifa,
lives in London. He is an icon of the "new historians" who sees the
Jewish State as a mere colonization at the expense of the Arab
people. Joining him in the UK are the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim
and the Israeli jurist Oren Ben Dor at Southampton University.
…
In 1967, during the Six-Day War, in the newspapers and in the salons
of the Israeli writers there circulated a bitter joke, saying that
at the airport in Tel Aviv, a sign reads: "The last one to leave
turn off the light."… Today it is what leftist Israeli
intelligentsia, pampered by the anti-Semitic European élites, are
doing.

Tel Aviv
University - Another Bad Peer Review: Shlomo Sand's (Dept of
History) Latest Book has Nothing New to Say

Israel Bartal had reduced Sand's previous book "When and How Was the
Jewish People Invented?" into a
work of fiction, now blames Sand for being over-simplistic and
lazy in his attempt to damn the Jewish State and the Zionist
Movement in his next book "The Invention of the Land of Israel".

Shlomo
Sand's political treatise, The Invention of the Land of Israel,
is another link in his larger project of deconstructing the
'historical super mythos of the Jews as a wandering people' and
severing the bond of memory between the ancient Land of the
Patriarchs and the modern Jewish experience.
…
While the book is packed with historical information and contains
lots of citations, as a veteran researcher of the history of the
Jewish national liberation movement, I was surprised that it is hard
to find even one research novelty in anything Professor Sand says.
The book adds no new knowledge, historical insight or perspective
that has not been presented before in regard to the changes that
occurred in the Jews' connection with this piece of land.
Furthermore, purely on the investigative level of Sand's work, I was
unable to discover any factual statement that Zionist
historiographers or prominent thinkers of the national movement
would not also stipulate. The historical account that Sand offers is
generally speaking true to the conventional wisdom of the old
Zionist historiography.
…
However, the Zionist innovators, unlike Shlomo Sand, did not
consider their venture and political culture a forgery, a lie or a
propaganda trick. … The rediscovery of a real country with hills,
vales, rivers and shores in ancient texts played a definitive role
in the cultural endeavors of several preeminent Zionist thinkers. …
In the historiographical part of his work, Sand describes accurately
(albeit sometimes in a simplistic manner that overlooks the
complexity of the cultural processes that modern nationalism
instigated in Jewish society) the contours of this Zionist uprising.

… His onslaught has a different target: the popular myth, common in
certain Israeli circles, about the existence of a direct
relationship between the biblical Land of Israel and the piece of
land that the modern Jewish national movement settled.
…
In sum, Sand's book illuminates the metamorphoses of the Zionist
struggle to impress on members of an ancient people a renewed and
revolutionary connection with a homeland, the memory of which had
been maintained for generations in collections of books, festival
rituals and prayerbooks. Alongside that sits the author's seething
hatred of Zionism, and everything associated with it, and this
prompts him to present the struggle of the Jewish national movement
as a set of falsehoods, distortions and prejudices.

Zuckermann gives an interview in Tages Anzeiger, the Swiss
German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, in
which he claims that Israel does not want peace at all. Furthermore,
Zuckermann denies Israeli right to self-defense and insinuates that
Israeli extremists will murder any politician who is "ready for
peace".

The
problem is that Israel will not have peace. Peace would mean a
two-state solution, and wants to prevent Israel. In Israel today
there is no political force that could tackle a two-state solution
without risking an Israeli civil war. If Israel does not want to
have this solution, this leads to a bi-national structure - four to
five million Palestinians then live under Israeli sovereignty. If
the Palestinians are denied their basic rights, we have an Israeli
apartheid state. If you are granted the basic rights, it is a
bi-national state, respectively the end of the Zionist state. Israel
has maneuvered itself into a historical dead end.

With
each passage of arms against the Palestinians Israel refers to its
self-defense. That's understandable and legitimate.
This is absolute nonsense. In the moment when Israel commits its
self-defense in accordance with international legal injustice,
namely the occupation of Palestinian territories for decades, this
has nothing to do with self-defense. In Israel there is no prospect
of peace, the peace movement is pathetic small. The last Israeli
politician who was ready for peace with the Palestinians, Yitzhak
Rabin was. We know how that ended almost 20 years ago.

Mizrahi
Communists and Other Extremists Clinging to Bygone Allegations of
Discrimination to Keep Careers Alive

Lyn Julius exposes the stale ideas and out-of-date stories told by
Mizrachi Radicals such as
Yehouda Shenhav (TAU),
Oren Yiftachel (BGU),
Smadar Lavie (Beit Berl College), and
Ella Shohat (NYU), and pokes holes in their obsolete far-leftist
conspiracies. Julius reveals how Shenhav, Shohat and the others
absurdly align or identify Jews from Arab countries with Arabs, and
displays how they ignore the fact that Arab imperialism has 'Arabised'
the ancient Jewish Middle Eastern and North African civilizations.

The
Moroccan-born poet Sami Shalom Chetrit and the sociologist of
Iraqi-Jewish descent Yehouda Shenhav founded the
Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in 1996 to challenge
Ashkenazi hegemony in Israeli society.
Sami Michael, a popular author now in his 80s, is among a
number of Jewish communists from Arab countries who continue to
inveigh against Israeli 'racism'. Other activists include Oren
Yiftachel and Smadar Lavie.
…
Similarly, Mizrahi leftist academics, like
Ella Shohat in New York, borrow heavily from Edward Said's
postcolonialist bible Orientalism, which divided the world crudely
into 'the West versus the Rest', viewing both Mizrahim ('Arabs of
the Jewish faith') and non-Jewish Arabs (the Rest) as victims of
Zionism (the West). 'If Israel could find a way to reconnect with
its own Middle-Eastern self, the chances are that this would result
in the country having entirely different relations with the region,'
writes Shabi. 'Because long before they were apparent arch enemies'
she claims, 'Arabs and Jews were culture collaborators, good
neighbours — and friends.'
…
Middle Eastern communities coexisted alongside each other, but
rarely intermarried. Jews never considered themselves Arabs. Arabs
did not consider them Arabs either. The 'Arab Jew' school of thought
is a recent development. Interestingly, few intellectuals who glory
in the label 'Arab Jew', were born in Arab countries, speak Arabic
as their mother tongue, or lived in Arab countries for any length of
time.
…
Fourth, many charges of early cultural discrimination no longer hold
true in 21st century Israel. Mizrahi food culture has eclipsed
kreplach, kugel or lochshen pudding on Israeli restaurant menus,
while 'Mizrahi' music is the staple popular culture.
…
Today Mizrahim are generals, doctors, property developers, bank
managers, and have held every government post except prime minister.
Most importantly – a hugely significant fact that Shabi simply
glosses over – intermarriage is running at 25 per cent and the mixed
Israeli family is fast becoming the norm. Soon there will be no such
thing as Mizrahi or Ashkenazi in the Israeli melting pot.
…
As a result, they are left with stale ideas and an out-of-date story
that is increasingly useless in explaining the country as it exists
right now. They miss the lively and potent fuel that drives the
place, and they underestimate its resilience.'
…
And by whitewashing the past, Shabi has
allowed herself to be co-opted into the Palestinian campaign to
denigrate Mizrahi rights. In 2012, when Israel's Deputy Foreign
Minister Danny Ayalon launched a media campaign for justice for
Jewish refugees from Arab lands, Shabi – and likeminded
intellectuals like Yehouda Shenhav – strenuously denied that these
Jews were refugees at all: aggrieved parties should seek justice as
individuals, they argued, not as a collective.
…
By applying the paradigm of Edward Said's Orientalism to the Mizrahi
Jews, Mizrahi radicals deny a political solution to the Mizrahi
Jewish question. Reduced to a religious subset of the Arab nation,
they become tools of pan-Arabist politics. Their postcolonialism
denies that cultural imperialism has 'Arabised' an ancient Middle
Eastern and North African civilisation.

The IDI as an example of the Israeli Fascist Left denying Freedom of
Speech to non-Leftists

A dispute has recently erupted between founder of
the Israel Democracy Institute Dr. Arye Carmon and the religious
research fellows of the institute about place of God in the public
sphere. The dispute shows us where on the political map the
institute is located, what its perception of democracy is, and what
fundamental assumption its members are demanded to operate under.
…
Carmon also declared once and for all that God has no place in a
combat order. "The army cannot be in any way tolerant of inculcating
God."
…
Carmon was alerted to the subject because "even the moderate among
us are moving toward the side of the threat." That is to say, toward
"the extremists in the national-religious camp." … Take note of what
the person who wants to teach us what democracy is about writes:
"More than one opinion on this subject must absolutely not exist in
our institute!! There is no place for two opinions; there is only a
place for uncompromising support of democratic values."
…
Carmon is reinforcing a claim I've made more than once, that given
the power, the Israeli Left will shut people up. That's what it has
done and continues to do in the media, in academia, and in the court
system. Democracy with a grain of salt.

The signed Israeli Academics make a feeble, morally-lacking
attempt to justify their support of BDS by claiming that discussion
does not equal support, only to launch into a tirade of reasons why
Israeli Academia should be boycotted for participating in "the
occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people." The signed
also misrepresent "true dialogue" as a process where acts of
violence are accepted.

In our opinion, the letter contains misleading statements regarding
what BDS sets out to achieve and the manner in which it does so.
Moreover, the letter misrepresents the structural position held by
anthropologists in Israeli society, as well as the responsibility of
the practitioners of anthropology in Israel as elsewhere towards the
Palestinian people and other victims of Israel's policies. One does
not have to be a supporter of BDS in order to believe, as the
undersigned do, that discussion of the academic boycott and other
measures of censure of the State of Israel is an ethical prerogative
for the AAA.

… Specifically, we support the AAA Executive Committee's call for an
open, transparent, and productive process and discussion of the
position that the AAA should take with respect to Israel/Palestine.
The IAA letter aims to prevent this discussion, finding fault with
the AAA for hosting panels and talks that have yet to take place. …
We do not expect this to be a placid, easy process; but then, true
dialogue never is.

… Israeli anthropologists have never as a body declared their
opposition to the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian
people. Second, contrary to the claims of the IAA letter, and as the
proponents of BDS claim, the Israeli academy is a central pillar of
the state, playing a key part in its repressive policies. … The IAA
has never collectively repudiated these practices, nor has it ever
publicly questioned the legitimacy of the "University" of Ariel, a
higher education institution recently established on confiscated
Palestinian land in the post-1967 occupied Palestinian territories.
…
At the same time, we urge the IAA to condemn the oppression of the
Palestinian people, and especially the recent murderous war in Gaza.
In taking such a stance, the IAA would take a first step towards
dissociating itself as a body from policies and values that
anthropologists cannot support in good faith. Until the IAA does so,
its call to avoid discussion of boycott in the name of "dialogue"
evades the cause it claims to uphold.

Among the signed:
Dr. Uri Davis, … AL-QUDS University … University of Exeter
Dr. Khaled Furani, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel
Aviv University
Dr. Dafna Hirsch, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Political
Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel
Dr. Yeela Raanan, Sapir College, Sderot
Noa Shaindlinger, PhD student, Department of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, University of Toronto
Dr. Dalit Simchai, Lecturer, Tel-Hai College

In an interview to the Argentinean newspaper Clarín, Davidi
exaggerates Jewish right-wing violence to distract from Arab
incitement and terror. Davidi wishes to erase 67 years of Israeli
Statehood and grant the Arabs a 'do-over' with the 1947 Partition
Plan.

"Today
Israeli pacifists and leftists are afraid," he told Clarin Ephraim
Davidi from his home in Tel Aviv, referring to groups that oppose
the current military offensive. This Professor of Economics and
History at the City University, member of the board of the Israeli
Communist Party, is one of the harshest critics of the society they
lived for more than 40 years. "If you go out there and show yourself
800 fascists who want to kill you, as you decide to stay at home,"
says the Argentine-born Israeli who has organized some of the recent
protests in the country developed against the offensive in the Gaza
Strip.
…
"The basic problem is the occupation of Palestinian territories and
while that does not end the violence will continue," he explains.
Davidi uses his college major to explain his reasoning, he says,
must go back to November 29, 1947. Then the partition of the British
Mandate of Palestine remembered only that they (the Palestinians)
never came to have their State. That's in the background of
everything, "he adds.

UCLA - Gabriel
Piterberg (Dept
of History) and his Anti-Zionistic Propaganda are Pegged for
Running a Once Successful Dept into the Ground

UCLA’s
Center for Near Eastern Studies was recently exposed as a propaganda
front for Israel haters. … Now comes the news that the Center has
been defunded (http://bit.ly/cnesucla).
…. But isn’t it justice that it coincides with the exposure of the
Center’s blatant bias? Kudos to Gabi Piterberg, Center director and
Israel-boycotter. He and his comrades ran a once-splendid shop into
the ground.

Goldblum, Liel, and the other "Academics" who
signed the petition, join the motion of a known anti-Israel
British MP who wishes to wipe Israel off the map.

Palestinian
propaganda notched up an important victory this week, with 274
British MPs voting last Monday to back the recognition of
Palestinian statehood and just 12 rejecting the motion… What's more
interesting is the fact that hundreds of Israelis
published appeals to the MPs to vote in favor of Mahmoud Abbas'
initiative.

… Well, the Palestinian move is not aimed at achieving a peace
settlement, and the British initiative falls entirely into the realm
of hatred and incitement against Israel. It's a move aimed at
bypassing any chance of achieving a settlement.
…
The British parliamentary motion was tabled by Labour MP Grahame
Morris, well known for his anti-Israel stance. He promotes a "Free
Palestine" agenda in which there is no room for Israel at all. He is
also part of the Nazification-of-Israel camp. Demonization doesn't
cut it for him. He wants something on a higher level.

There's something sad about the fact that former minister Yossi
Sarid and former Foreign Ministry official Alon Liel have slipped
into the realms of the radical left in recent years.

The Extreme Left brings international pressure to bear on Israel to
bypass Israeli sovereignty and attempts to silence anyone who dares
to criticize their Fascist ways.

Now the same "Israel is an Apartheid Regime" propaganda team is
back, rallying the rest of the anti-Israel academic Left to attempt
to bypass and neutralize Israeli sovereignty. Their initiative also
reflects the utter contempt and disdain that Leftists in Israel have
for democracy.

No one is stopping the Radical Left in Israel from peddling its
ideological wares in the marketplace of public opinion. … The public
simply repudiates the Left's agenda. Treason just has not proved to
be the grand vote grabber that the Left expected. Certainly since
the outbreak of the recent battles in Gaza, almost no one in Israel
still favors the so-called "Two State Solution." Almost no one is
willing to see Israel "withdraw" from the West Bank and allow a
Palestinian terror state to operate there. Almost no one is willing
to reward Hamas with "concessions."

The Left understands that its "ideas" have been rejected by nearly
the entire Israeli political spectrum. Since it is incapable of
persuading Israelis of the correctness of its agenda, it has decided
instead to recruit foreign powers to "do the job" for it and bully
Israel…

Goldblum,
the organizer of
the petition calling for European recognition of the "state of
Palestine," has a long track record of calling for Europeans to
suppress and override Israeli sovereignty and
impose policies upon Israel from without opposed by the bulk of
Israelis. In a notorious speech before an assembly of leftists in
May 2012, Goldblum was quoted as calling upon Israel's Left to stop
wasting its time attempting to persuade the general public to
embrace its political agenda, evidently because it is clear that the
public will never do so. Goldblum said he has no interest in the
Israeli electorate and general public and called upon the radical
Left to go directly to political groups abroad, outside of Israel,
and recruit them as pressure groups to coerce Israel into accepting
the agenda of the Israeli Left.

His
comrades in Petitiongate are not very different. Among the
signers calling on Europeans to "recognize Palestine" are Shlomo
Sand, the pseudo-historian from Tel Aviv University who is the most
openly anti-Semitic "academic" in Israel, Oren Yiftachel, who has
built an "academic" career by asserting that Israel is an apartheid
regime…

The only thing the signers of the petition detest more than their
own country is freedom of speech. The Israeli far Left is a fascist
movement that ferociously opposes not only Israeli sovereignty but
also democracy and freedom of speech for non-leftists. Critics of
leftists must be silenced and indicted, insist the Far Leftists,
because the exercise of freedom of speech by non-leftists produces
violence and it is a clear and present danger.

Tel Aviv
University –
Alon Liel (Dept
of Political Science) Supporting BDS and the Campaign to Reverse
Jewish Self-Determination

CiF Watch summarizes the 20+ years of Liel's erroneous renegade
activities against the State.

One
thing, however, is clear:
Alon Liel (the author of the CiF piece of June 27th) is the type
of Israeli with whom the Guardian can do business. He makes all the
right noises, uses all the right buzz-words, is not averse to
delegitimising his fellow countrymen and conforms splendidly to the
simplistic 'Guardian World View'.

Thus, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) becomes a noble way in
which to promote peace instead of what its instigators
really intend it to be – a campaign to reverse Jewish
self-determination.
…
The 'settlements', according to the Liel sound-bites, are of course
'illegal under international law' and on 'occupied land'. They – and
they alone – jeopardise peace and a two-state solution. Not
terrorism, not generation after generation of officially sanctioned
Palestinian incitement, not the inability of Palestinian society
to conduct democratic elections and come up with one truly
representative leader with whom Israel can negotiate and not even
the basic refusal to accept a Jewish presence in the Middle East.
…
As offensive as it is to see an Israeli collaborating with the
campaign to delegitimize and dehumanize a significant proportion of
the Israeli population, Alon Liel is of course entitled to his own
opinion… But – as Israelis will be aware (and Guardian editors
apparently choose to ignore), this is not the first time that Alon
Liel has been wrong.

The former diplomat (who apparently had no qualms then about taking
government salaries paid for in part by the income tax of people he
today wishes to delegitimize and boycott) was part of the team which
engineered the Oslo Accords. He is closely associated with Yossi
Beilin – the author of the Geneva Accords – and
the two have joint
business interests today, in addition to
Liel's own business, primarily located in
Turkey.

Alon Liel is also known for his
self-initiated attempts to negotiate with the Syrian government.
Together with American-Syrian businessman Ibrahim (Abe) Suleiman, he
conducted a series of
unauthorized talks with Damascus beginning in 2004 and
continuing for just under two years.

Tel Aviv University – Shlomo Sand (Dept of History) Gets a Stage
at London University to Cash In on his Jewish Anti-Semitism and
Present his Works of Fiction as Fact

Now
Sands is about to use a
public platform provided by the London Middle East Institute and
the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of London, SOAS (The
School of Oriental and African Studies) to hawk his new book. His
talk is entitled: "How I Stopped Being a Jew."
…
In particular, Sand focuses on what he insists are racist values in
Israel and the growth of those same racist values even amongst
secular Jews worldwide, "whose main role has been reduced to
justifying Israel's crimes against the Palestinians."

Perhaps the most significant details which reveal what kind of
country Israel really is - one which values freedom of speech and
expression, perhaps to a fault - is that not only is Shlomo Sand a
professor at an Israeli university, but the fawning reviewer of his
book, Mahmoud Muhereb, received his B.A. in political science from
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Goldblum and Liel, previously among the
initiators of the
Apartheid Smear Campaign, gather support of those who'd wish to
thwart Israeli democracy, many of whom have
ties to the New Israel Fund. They demand that the British House
of Commons recognize an Arab State of Palestine,
which never existed, and to which a majority of Israeli citizens
object. As a
long standing strategic policy suggested by Goldblum himself,
the Fascist Left does not need to convince the Israeli electorate
when they can recruit foreign countries to compel their unpopular
Leftist Diktats.

363
Israeli public figures have signed a letter to the Members of the
British Parliament, calling upon them to vote in favor of British
recognition of a Palestinian State, to be created side-by-side with
Israel.
…
The letter reads: "We, Israelis who worry and care for the
well-being of the state of Israel, believe that the long-term
existence and security of Israel depends on the long-term existence
and security of a Palestinian state. For this reason we, the
undersigned, urge members of the UK Parliament to vote in favor of
the motion to be debated on Monday 13th October 2014, calling on the
British Government to recognize the State of Palestine alongside the
State of Israel ".

Amiram Goldblum
(Hebrew University) and Alon Liel (Tel Aviv University) Spurring the
British Parliament to Recognize an Arab State of Palestine

Goldblum authors a desperate plea, to which Liel also gives his
name, for other Israeli ultra-leftists to join their anti-democratic
measure to circumvent peace negotiations and create a belligerent
Arab state in the Israeli heartland as a reward for terror.

"We,
Israelis who worry and care for the well-being of the state of
Israel, believe that the long-term existence and security of Israel
depends on the long-term existence and security of a Palestinian
state. For this reason we the undersigned urge members of the UK
parliament to vote in favour of the motion to be debated on Monday
13th October 2014 calling on the British Government to recognize the
state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel"

University of
Illinois and
Beit Berl: Clinical Psychology Professor Riva Bachrach,
Co-Founder of Machsom Watch, Prescribes Draft Dodging, Interfering
with IDF Security Measures, and Demanding Arab "Right of Return" to
Terminate the Jewish State of Israel.

Apparently, Bachrach prefers to think "human
rights" are violated by IDF soldiers trying to interdict those who
would harm even other Arabs and their children. But when it comes to
Palestinian exhortation for attacking Jews that comes on their
television screens, that's not a human rights violation and such
studies would be superfluous…

A member of the notorious hate-Israel
Coalition of Women of Peace, Bachrach was an early co-founding
member of
Machsom Watch. Its aim from the get go has been to interfere
with those nasty IDF soldiers who try to stop terrorists and hinder
their freedom to travel. Why allow IDF soldiers to screen for
killers when Bachrach's concept of "academic freedom" is at stake?
…
Bachrach also encourages draft dodging from the IDF. At a conference
of leftist psychologists at Tel Aviv University, Bachrach explained
that her mission is to make Israeli society aware of the negative
psychological effect on Arabs and on Israeli soldiers because they
are made to serve in the "Occupied Territories" where they protect
"violent" settlers. IDF soldiers "mistreat" the Arabs who "suffer".
…
Riva Bachrach signed a petition distributed by Israel's communist
party that endorses the so-called "Palestinian right of return." It
states, "We are united in the belief that peace and reconciliation
are contingent on Israel's recognition of its responsibility for the
injustices done to the indigenous people, the Palestinians, and on
willingness to redress them. Recognition of the right of return
follows from our principles. … Only thus shall we stop being plagued
by the past's demons and damnations and make ourselves at home in
our common homeland."
…
Riva Bachrach is a psychologist who appears to have psychological
problems and cannot see which side really seeks to violate the
others' "human rights."

Scheindlin fabricates
a non-existent pre-1948 Arab State to which Gazans once held
citizenship. She then insinuates that State of Israel is to
blame for this imaginary Arab State's demise. Why should
Scheindlin let the fact that Egypt invaded and occupied Gaza for
19 years interfere with her fraudulent narrative?

Scheindlin sobs over the causalities
resulting from Arab use of human shields to protect their military
targets and blames Israel for using the kidnapped school children as
"leverage" to "provoke" Hamas into committing war crimes.

Scheindlin
suggests a "peace" plan that includes Israel capitulating to Arab
terror. Is this a woman you'd want teaching some of our best, young
impressionable minds?

They join a petition that demands the right
under the auspices of "academic freedom" to conduct anti-Semitic
"discourse" under the pretexts of "anti-Zionism" and "critical
viewpoints of Israeli policy". They reject attempts by
AMCHA to educate innocent, impressionable young adults from
being caught unaware from the pending anti-Semitic far-leftist
indoctrination to be experienced in the classrooms of the listed
"academics".

AMCHA
has also circulated a list of more than 200 Middle Eastern studies
faculty whom it urges Jewish students and others to avoid because,
it asserts, they espouse anti-Zionist and even antisemitic
viewpoints in their classrooms.

It goes without saying that we, as students of antisemitism, are
unequivocally opposed to any and all traces of this scourge. That
said, we find the actions of AMCHA deplorable.

Its technique of monitoring lectures, symposia and conferences
strains the basic principle of academic freedom on which the
American university is built. Moreover, its definition of
antisemitism is so undiscriminating as to be meaningless. Instead of
encouraging openness through its efforts, AMCHA's approach closes
off all but the most narrow intellectual directions and has a
chilling effect on research and teaching. AMCHA's methods lend
little support to Israel, whose very survival depends on free, open,
and vigorous debate about its future.
…
AMCHA's tactics are designed to stifle debate on issues debated in
Israel and around the world, and the presumption that students must
be protected from their own universities is misguided and
destructive. Efforts such as these do not promote academic
integrity, but rather serve to deaden the kind of spirited academic
exchange that is the lifeblood of the university.

Nathan
Zach, the famed poet and Israel Prize laureate, was quoted in
Hebrew-language media outlets on Tuesday as saying that he supported
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's characterization of
Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip this past summer as "genocide."

In an interview with Army Radio, Zach said it was Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu's speech that was "slanderous" while Abbas "spoke
the truth."

Shatz accuses the State of discrimination, racism, war crimes, and
the murder of children. Shatz is infuriated that the High Court of
Justice does not strike down every any non-far-leftist law that the
Knesset may pass.

In the same regard, it is hard to understand all the noise made by
the tiny left. For beyond the list issued in honor of the Jewish
High Holidays, courtesy of the Central Bureau of Statistics, which
is usually no more than a curiosity item for the holiday issue, laws
have been passed for years that deepen discrimination and racism,
and erase the memory of the Palestinian tragedy.
…
And of all things, the issue of erasing Arab names from the
statistics makes exceptional waves compared to the daily apathy that
allows (with High Court of Justice approval) the citizenship and
Nakba laws, the absentee landlord law and acceptance committees for
Jewish communities. That apathy also clears the way for the accepted
norms of administrative detention, assassinations and war crimes
that will never be investigated – and over the Green Line they are
legal, according to the courts.

But the effort to erase the name Mohammed actually fits in quite
well, as do the failure and the minor commotion that followed.
Because we didn't erase the children's names, but rather the lives
of the children themselves.

University of Exeter –
Video Footage of Ilan Pappe's "Expert" "Testimony" to the Kuala
Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Hearing on Palestine

Pappe uses a litany of false or misleading
facts and other untruths in an attempt to substantiate accusations
of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" of Arabs by Israel in 1948. Any
Court of "Law" that would accept testimony from Ilan Pappe, a
disgraced academic and linchpin in the Tantura Hoax, must be
blatantly incompetent and obviously biased.

The
deeper shift is not in the level of public support for the two
political camps, but in their make-up. On the right, the liberal and
democratic elements have been overtaken by chauvinist populists.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's party, Likud, whose members used to walk
out on Kahane, is now populated by some of the most vocal inciters.
The last remnants of its democrats were ousted in the last primary
elections, and the remaining moderates pander to the pugnacious
extremists that dominate the party. The prime minister himself has
maintained utter silence in the face of growing racism and political
violence. The left, on the other hand, has lost its political
stamina and its moral courage. A depletion of ideas, debilitation of
institutions, and putrefaction of leadership have left it
politically inert. The social mechanisms that kept Kahane's racism
at bay have all but disintegrated.

Ben Gurion
University - Neve
Gordon (Dept of Political Science) and other Israeli "Academics"
Support Anti-Semite after he Gets Canned over Anti-Semitic
Twitter Tweets

Gordon and the other Israeli "Academics" show solidarity with Steven
Salaita, who's new appointment at Illinois U was rescinded over
demeaning and juvenile anti-Israel Twitter tweets. Campus-Watch
describes Steven Salaita's
Twitter posts as "inflammatory,
anti-Israel, anti-Semitic" and describes his academic
record as "atrocious".

Whereas
news reports from several reputable sources such as Inside Higher
Education assert that the administrative decision of Chancellor Wise
to block Professor Salaita's employment at UIUC was a response to
complaints about his postings to
twitter.com;

The Goldblum-funded Apartheid "Poll" gets quoted to help support
claims of Israeli fascism, genocide, and "ethnic cleansing" in an
anti-Semitic rant on Truth-Out.org.

These
calls for ethnic cleansing and genocide are increasing in frequency.
The political climate in Israel has continued to shift so sharply to
the right in the past few years that a fascist discourse is now
palpable in the daily life of the country. In Tel Aviv in August,
some of the right-wing protesters who beat leftists demonstrating
against the siege of Gaza
wore T-shirts bearing neo-Nazi symbols and photos, including
T-shirts bearing the slogan "Good night left side," a neo-Nazi
slogan popular in Europe at rock concerts featuring far-right bands,
as a response to the original anti-fascist slogan: "Good night white
pride." Nearly half of the Jewish population of Israel
supports a policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and major
portions of the population support complete annexation of the
occupied territories and the establishment of an apartheid state,
according to a 2012 poll.

Tel Aviv University - Carlo Strenger
(Dept of Psychology) does not Think Israel is Liberal Enough to be
Allowed to Exist

US Jewish Liberals, who live in a country that Occupies the
Territories taken from Mexico, are not comfortable with an Israel
that Defends itself. So Strenger's solution is to allow the Hamas to
turn the West Bank into a New Rocket Base

But
underlying this debate is a profoundly painful process that many
liberal Jews, both in Israel and the Diaspora, are undergoing: They
feel like let-down lovers. They wonder, what place can they give in
their emotional lives and their identity to an Israel that does not
correspond to their core values of universal human rights? Can they
remain attached to a country that violates these principles,
primarily through an occupation that has now lasted for two-thirds
of Israel's history?
…
Therefore, he argues, liberal Jews should drop the idea of the
Jewish homeland. They should accept that there will be only one
state west of the Jordan, and invest their energy toward making sure
that individual political and human rights of all inhabitants of
this area (primarily Palestinians, of course, whose rights are being
trampled) be respected.
…
When it became clear that the occupation was not a passing episode,
but had become a feature of most of Israel's history, their
perception shifted radically. They began to see Israel as a racist,
colonial enterprise that simply didn't behave along the moral lines
of the Free World. It still thought in terms of annexation and
ethnic cleansing – notions that had become anathema in the Free
World that had evolved after World War II.
…
Israel is an impressive achievement in many ways, but it was never
an ideal society. The historical circumstances in which Israel came
into existence were brutal, tragic and characterized by vast
population movements – nowadays called ethnic cleansing. These
ranged from the expulsion of millions of ethnic Germans from their
homes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries
after WWII, to the massive population transfers of millions when
large parts of India became what is today Pakistan and Bangladesh.
…
We must let go of the shtetl mentality that Jews must stick
together, and that a good Jew doesn't say bad things about other
Jews in the public sphere. We no longer live in the shtetl, whether
in Israel or the Diaspora – even if some of us like to indulge in
shtetl nostalgia via love for hazanut or klezmer music once in a
while.

We have the right to voice our displeasure about what other Jews –
Israeli or not – do, as much as the Americans and French can dislike
some of their fellow countrymen.

Utilizing the 'forensic architecture' techniques that he developed
himself, Weizman gathers 'evidence' for the future international
prosecution of Israel by NGOs, the UN, and other organizations.
Using one such "technique", Weizman claims that the red roofed
houses in Israeli townships are in fact a preconceived form of an
Israeli military identification system. When not developing new
'forensic architecture' techniques or collecting "evidence" of
Israeli crimes, Weizman dreams of a future Israel without Jews.

Since then, Weizman has also made a name for himself as the chief
proponent of "forensic architecture", by which he analyses the
impacts of urban warfare for clues about the crimes that were
perpetrated there. To Weizman, buildings are weapons. … "The weapons
and ammunitions are very simple elements: they are trees, they are
terraces, they are houses. They are barriers."

… [Weizman] says the most obvious and contentious aspect of what
he calls the "architecture of occupation" is the system of Israeli
settlements. Perched on West Bank hilltops, they are strategically
positioned, according to Weizman, so that they look out over the
Palestinian valleys and towns below, in order "to dominate".

Each of the uniformly suburban-looking houses – all with
mandatory red roofs so that on flyovers the Israeli army know not to
target them – is "itself like an optical instrument," he tells me.
…
In this manner, architects can become "archaeologists of the
present", piecing together how things unfolded – which building was
destroyed by artillery, which by tank fire, which by bulldozers.
Weizman now leads the
Forensic Architecture team at Goldsmiths, University of London –
a unique project that provides "architectural evidence" for
international prosecution teams, political organisations, NGOs and
the UN…

If the Gaza conflict were ever to make it to the International
Criminal Court, Weizman supposes he'd work with the prosecution…
…
For Weizman, though, it's not all about architecture as a means of
occupation, or as evidence of a crime. … In this future, he imagines
how settlements might be turned into Palestinian public
institutions, and military bases into nature parks for migratory
birds.

A
column written by Avi Shlaim, professor emeritus of international
relations at St Antony's College, Oxford University takes the absurd
position that Israel started the Gaza War because it responded to
the killing of three Israeli Boys and the continued rocket attacks
by Hamas.
…
Shlaim makes the self-contradictory statement that calm prevailed
before Israel struck back. Assuming he meant that before the most
recent Gaza War there were no Hamas rocket attacks, the retired
professor is way off.

===

UK-based Israeli academic and longtime Israel critic Avi Shlaim has
weighed in on the Gaza war in the Guardian's Comment is Free
section, and predictably, he unleashed a scathing critique of
Israel.

To do so, however, Shlaim invokes a logic so twisted, it's hard to
believe he himself subscribes to it.

For example, he insists that Israel is responsible for starting the
war and for "initiating the cycle of violence."
…
And how exactly does Shlaim define "calm" it if it included the
kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths? What sort of calm is
that, and why is the response to that the act that set off a "cycle
of violence," not the act itself?

Put another way, whether Hamas is kidnapping innocent Israelis or
firing rockets at Israeli civilians, the violence only begins
when Israel fires back.

The effort to whitewash Hamas, however, doesn't end there…
…
If Hamas is, indeed, guilty of terrorism, it would be dishonest to
remove the terrorist tag until the group at least renounces the use
of violence. But for Shlaim, waiting for that would be inconvenient
for peace – presupposing, of course, that peace can be reached with
an organization that is "guilty of terrorism."

To facilitate this goal, Shlaim absurdly blames Israel for
initiating the violence in Operation Protective Edge. In
contradicting statements, Shlaim demands that Hamas is "a legitimate
political actor" but yet claims that "Israel would have no peace and
no security" from Hamas terror attacks unless their irredentist
demands are met. Following the same warped line of thought, Shlaim
blames Israel for any and all agreements violated and demands
granting Hamas all the benefits of peace as a prize for terror.

Hamas
had more solid reasons for rejoicing, despite the horrific suffering
endured by the people of Gaza. By any objective criterion, the
outcome of the conflict was a draw. But for a small and poorly armed
militia to stand its ground against one of the mightiest armies in
the world is a remarkable achievement… Above all, Hamas succeeded in
sending a clear message that Israel would have no peace and no
security as long as it continued to occupy Palestinian territory.
…
Second, it is time to remove from Hamas the terrorist tag. This is a
powerful weapon in the propaganda war but useless in the quest for
peace. Hamas is indeed guilty of terrorism but it is also a
legitimate political actor,
having won a fair and free election in 2006. Netanyahu claims
that Hamas is indistinguishable from the murderous fanatics who make
up Isis. Hamas, however, is not a messianic jihadist movement but a
local organisation with a pragmatic political leadership and limited
aims.
…
These existential issues may or may not be addressed at a later
stage. For the time being in Cairo the two delegations are
negotiating, through Egyptian mediators. Israel's main demand is the
demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip. This is unrealistic because Gaza
is the last outpost of resistance to the 47-year-old occupation and
Hamas is not about to lay down its arms. Hamas is calling for the
lifting of the illegal seven-year Israeli blockade of Gaza and the
reopening of the borders. Other Hamas demands include the rebuilding
of Gaza international airport,
which Israel destroyed in 2001, the release of prisoners and the
reopening of the "safe passage" to the West Bank. These are not new
but grounded in earlier agreements that Israel violated.

Israeli
Academics Join Hands with International Anti-Semites from the
Extreme Left and Right

Ben-Dror Yemini reprimands the nomadic band of Israeli "Academics"
of every anti-Israeli petition, Shlomo Sand, Yehouda Shenhav, Anat
Matar, Udi Adiv, Adi Ophir and others, who signed their name to
claims of fabricated acts of slaughter.

Is
Anti-Zionism also anti-Semitism? Let's check. While the recent war
raged, the medical journal, The Lancet, published an
open letter against Israel's alleged war crimes – another
example of academics being recruited into the Hamas propaganda
machine.

… Concurrent with the letter came an
additional
petition, claiming acts of slaughter, published by Israeli
academics, among them members of the nomadic band of every
anti-Israeli petition, like Shlomo Sand, Yehouda Shenhav, Anat Matar,
Udi Adiv and Adi Ophir – good souls.

To be honest, these soldiers
did not do too well in the battlefield. Conventional armies are
inept when it comes to battling face-to-face with desperate
guerrillas dug deep in tunnels and bunkers. Possibly the HAMAS DNA
would have been a bit more fitting for this purpose, if one wishes
to take ad absurdum this Israeli Jewish obsession with human
engineering.

It was bad enough to
base the whole Zionist idea on the wish to create an exclusive and
supremacist Jewish democracy, in a land where the
Jews were not and are not going to be ever such a majority (unless
they genocide the local population).

With later references to "visions of ethnic purity and supremacy,"
Pappe is drawing a clear analogy between Israeli society and Nazi
Germany that placed an ideological value in the purity of the German
"race" and the use of eugenics to achieve this.
…
So 30 out of a sample of 60 infertile women over a time period of
days rather than weeks, months or even years is considered a
credible sociological, scientific and academic sample of Israel's 8
million population. Hardly worthy of a high school student let alone
a professor.
…
Far from Pappe's vision of Israeli women creating some sort of
master race, a look at The Times of Israel story shows a far more
obvious motivation in a quote from the director of the Rambam
Medical Center's sperm bank:

"A man who served in a combat unit comes across as someone who has
impressive physical attributes that live up to the genetic
aspirations of the women," she explained. "Generally speaking, he
will be physically fit and in good health, in addition to other
important attributes."

…
The term "Jewish supremacism" – an especially vile form of the
'Zionism = Racism" charge – has been popularized by
extreme antisemites such as
former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
David
Duke and a neo-Nazi style extremist named
Gilad
Atzmon. Indeed, the
doctoral thesis written by Duke was titled 'Zionism is a form of
ethnic supremacism'.

But, at the heart of Pappe's charges is something much darker than
merely a commentary on Zionism. If you recall,
back in 2011 the Guardian's Deborah Orr achieved well-deserved
notoriety for complaining that so many Zionists believe "that
the lives of the chosenare of hugely
greater consequence than those of their unfortunate [Palestinian]
neighbors" – "Zionists" of course being a euphemism for
"Jews".

Such an ugly
distortion of the Jewish 'chosen people' idea often suggests that
the Jewish faith, in practice if not by theological design, arguably
shares an
ideological similitude with other odious, exclusivist 20th
century ideologies in that they see their group as a superior race.

Hebrew
University - Daphna Golan-Agnon (Dept
of Law) - Consigliere for the Anti-Israel Law Mafia

Golan-Agnon , the (co-)founder of B'tselem and
Women in Black, is part of Israel's academic fifth column. To her,
"human rights" are not for Jews at all and the term merely serves as
a cover for the campaign to tear down the Jewish state.

These
days every anti-Semitic and anti-Israel group in the world claims to
be fighting to defend "human rights." Their problem is they do not
count Jews among the humans entitled to rights. One such attorney is
Daphna Golan Agnon.

Golan-Agnon was one of the co-founders of
B'tselem (In God's image), a far-leftist
anti-Israel activist and propaganda group. Billing herself as a
"human rights" attorney, she is currently a
lecturer in the Hebrew University law school and a research
fellow at the Harry S Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
in Jerusalem… When one reads Golan-Agnon's comments and prejudices
in support of Israel's enemies, it is frightening to think she is
promulgating her ideas in the classroom.

She co-founded B'tselem in 1989 on the premise that the NGO "acts
primarily to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories…" …
It engages in misrepresentations of international law,
inaccurate research, and skewed statistics."

B'tselem under Agnon-Golan's leadership has
sought to undermine the IDF, since each and every act of
self-defense by Israel is in its view a violation of Arab human
rights. B'tselem even employs Arab
staff who are Holocaust deniers to spread anti-Semitism.
…
Not surprisingly, Agnon-Golan herself is a fountain of anti-Israel
rhetoric. She accuses Israel of "apartheid,"
perpetrating "war
crimes," "beating
and abus[ing]" Palestinians, "demolition
of [Palestinian] houses as punishment," and forced "deportations."
…
Agnon-Golan's constant accusations of human rights abuses against
the Arabs
makes its way
into distorted western media. As mentioned, Golan-Agnon loves
to
compare Israel with apartheid South Africa:
…
Agnon-Golan also co-founded the ultra-anti-Israel Women In Black,
which supports mutiny and insubordination ("resistance") by IDF
soldiers. She was even sighted tearing down pro-IDF posters on the
Hebrew University campus during Operation Cast Lead. Caught
red-handed, she whined that she was being angrily ridiculed by
students who were also serving in the army:
…
Daphna Agnon-Golan is part of Israel's academic fifth column. To
her, "human rights" are not for Jews at all and the term merely
serves as a cover for the campaign to tear down the Jewish state.
All the while she is sitting in her cushy Hebrew University office
paid for by the Israeli taxpayer.

Neve
Gordon, professor of Politics and Government at Israel's Ben-Gurion
University, said in an interview over Skype [June 2012] that…
"These professors have a large network abroad. They come for a
semester and live in Ramallah or Nablus or Hebron, and suddenly they
experience firsthand what's going on in the West Bank or Gaza. It's
very powerful –the experience of teaching first-hand at a
Palestinian university. An academic who comes for a half year or a
year is much more threatening than the average John or Jane. And
then, in a sense, these academics become ambassadors for the
Palestinian people. And that's what Israel doesn't want".

Goldblum relabels the
war on terror and judicial processes of the court system as proof
for Israeli "apartheid".

Israel is not an
apartheid state, but it runs an apartheid regime beyond the "green
line", which was the border between Israel and Jordan's West Bank
(WB) until June 4, 1967. The facts are crystal clear: Jewish
settlers and Palestinians live in that area under two widely
different legal systems. Jews are subject to a civil administration
and Palestinians are subject to a military one. Most of the 2.5
million Palestinians are restricted to some 220 "Palestinostans"
(Similar to the dozen "bantustans" in apartheid South Africa, also
called "homelands" to clarify that this is those are the homes of
the black people). These were called "area A" (full Palestinian
security control of the main cities) and "area B" (Palestinian
civilian control, mutual Israeli-Palestinian security – which
deteriorated in the intifada of 2000) by the Oslo agreement. Those
are 220 islands of Palestinian existence, each of them fully
surrounded by the IDF fully controlled "area C". The Oslo agreement
was put together as an interim solution for 5 years, but remains
unchanged ever since… Many of the Palestinians in the Jordan valley
and in the south part of the Hebron mountain range are pushed out of
their homes by the combined pressures and "convincing" of the
settlers and the IDF, frequently at the point of a gun. The focal
point of apartheid in the West Bank is the city of Hebron, where
some 1000 settlers and IDF personnel control the lives of 40
thousand Palestinians in the "area C" part of Hebron, called H2.
Hebron's H2 is the apartheid capital of the WB, where only settlers
enjoy the Israeli laws and voting rights, while the annexed East
Jerusalem, where 300 thousand Palestinians are devoid of civil
rights despite the annexation, became a major source of manual work
for the Jewish parts of Jerusalem. Practical apartheid is prominent
in Arab Jerusalem, and is propelled by some prominent members of the
municipality of Jerusalem…

Those who oppose the use of the "A"
word to describe the situation in the WB claim that ingredients of
South African apartheid are not found in the West Bank. This is a
typical claim by many South Africans, who are very well acquainted
with the SA apartheid, which was based on institutionalized racism,
while the Rome convention had already extended the term to other types of
institutionalized separation… Still, many roads to settlements are
closed for Palestinians, there are separate bus lines for settlers
and for Palestinians, and water is distributed with huge preference
to the settlers.

In Hebron, the apartheid capital, all
of this is much more visible: a divided road leads to the cave of
the Patriarchs, Palestinian property is taken over by Jews, who are
supported by the IDF, and the supreme court legalizes "taking back"
property from before the 1929 massacre in Hebron, or the 1949 cease
fire agreement, solely on the basis that it once belonged to Jews.

Hebrew University - Dimitry Shumsky (Dept
of History) Insists that Israel Betrays Zionism When it Does Not
End the "Occupation" and Allow the Hamas to Set Up a New Terror Base
in the West Bank

Hatred
of the State of Israel in our times – which spills over occasionally
into hatred of Jews wherever they are – points indirectly at a
fundamental failure in the fulfillment of Zionism. This failure,
which contains within it an existential danger to the Jewish
people's status throughout the world, is just as bad as the one
Herzl saw in his own day as the basis of modern anti-Semitism. Its
main component is the failure of Israel, which never succeeded in
integrating into the family of nations because of the intolerable
anomaly of civil oppression and national subjugation, which are
perpetrated under the banner of democracy and freedom.

The more deeply this anomaly becomes
entrenched, the stronger the trend of shunning Israel and
ostracizing it from the international community will grow, together
with confirmation of Zionism's failure to bring the Jews' anomalous
political status into line with that of the rest of the nations.
This anomaly – of a supposed right to be occupiers and yet be
thought enlightened – endangers Israel's status and sabotages the
Zionist normalization project of the Jewish people. Since it is
growing even stronger under the government of Netanyahu, Bennett and
Lieberman, which sees itself as impeccably Zionist, one might say
that it is the government of the real betrayers of the Zionist idea.

Israeli
Academics Join their Anti-Semitic Comrades in Attacking Israel and
Supporting the Academic Boycott of Israel

The petition manipulates the support of IDF
soldiers by Israeli Universities and the on‑campus collection of
food donations for the soldiers into culpability for a long list of
misrepresented Israeli "atrocities" from the war on terror. The
petition accuses the silence of the "colleagues in the Israeli
academy" with "complicity" with the "atrocities" mentioned above,
thus, making both them and their universities 'legitimate' targets
for boycott.

The academics feel that they have a holier than thou obligation to
police world ethics. Their singling out Israel for reprimand, while
ignoring nuclear proliferation, beheadings by terrorist regimes, the
use of weapons of mass destruction, and other civil-war atrocities,
is just another form of repressed anti-Semitism under the guise of
anti-Zionism.

The academics dictate terms for capitulation
to the end of the Jewish Democratic State of Israel and subjection
to a second Holocaust through unmitigated terror, indefensible
borders, return of hostile displaced Arabs of 1948 and their
descendants, and the creation of a third Arab state in the Negev run
by the Bedouins.

We,
the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East,
hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused
by Israel's new military assault on the Gaza Strip—the third and
most devastating in six years—constitutes complicity. World
governments and mainstream media do not hold Israel accountable for
its violations of international law. We, however, as a community of
scholars engaged with the Middle East, have a moral responsibility
to do so.

Neither the violation of international law nor the destruction of
Palestinian life in Gaza, however, began or will end with the
current war. Israel has maintained an illegal siege on the Gaza
Strip for seven years. It has limited the movement of people and
goods in and out of Gaza, rationing Palestinian calorie intake at
just above subsistence levels.[1] Moreover, the suffering of
Palestinians is not limited to Gaza: the occupation and
dispossession in East Jerusalem, the Naqab (Negev), and the West
Bank; the construction of walls and fences around the Palestinian
population, the curtailment of Palestinian freedom of movement and
education, and the house demolitions, all have long histories and no
apparent end in sight. They will continue unless people around the
world act where their governments have failed.
…
The ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza have been ghastly reminders of
the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in the occupation
and oppression of Palestinians. Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, Haifa University,
Technion, and Ben Gurion University have publicly declared their
unconditional support for the Israeli military [6]…

Our colleagues in the Israeli academy have been silent, by and
large, in the face of such violence and injustice. We applaud the
few dozen Israeli academics who have protested against their
government, and the several dozen who signed a petition calling for
an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza [10] …

As Middle East scholars and librarians, we
feel compelled to join the growing number of academics in Israel and
around the world who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli
academic institutions…

[W]e call on our colleagues in Middle East
Studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions, and we pledge not
to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic
institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other
events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals
based in Israel. We call for doing so until such time as these
institutions end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as
stipulated in international law, and respect the full rights of
Palestinians by calling on Israel to:

1. End its siege of Gaza, its occupation and
colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967, and dismantle
the settlements and the walls;
2. Recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens
of Israel and the stateless Negev Bedouins to full equality; and
3. Respect, protect, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees
to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN
Resolution 194.

The
grassroots Zionist student movement Im Tirtzu on Tuesday called on
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) to rescind the nomination of
Prof. Barak Medina to the Supreme Court, after he pressed for the
"right" of Arab residents to protest Israel's very existence.

Im Tirtzu cited a campaign initiated by Medina for academics to sign
an open letter to the University of Haifa President Amos Shapira,
pressing him to allow a "Nakba Day" ceremony on May 15 commemorating
the "catastrophe" of modern Israel's establishment.
…
While Medina has claimed he was not among the initiators of the
campaign, his name is in fact listed first among the initiators in
the letter, and further his e-mail address is given in the mail for
those who wish to sign on to reply to.
…
"Therefore we ask that (you) act to rescind the nomination of Prof.
Medina....It is inappropriate for a person with such radical views -
those that are inconsistent with the character of a Jewish, Zionist
and democratic state of Israel - to serve as a judge on the Supreme
Court of the State of Israel," concluded the letter [from 'Im
Tirtzu'].

These and other Israeli "academics" join Holocaust survivors to
condemn "the massacre" of Arabs and other falsified "atrocities"
supposedly perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

[Daniel Boyarin] lists himself as "great grandson" of victims of
Nazism… Boyarin belongs to what has been called the "sissy" school
of contemporary Jewish thinkers… For him the moral center of Jewish
history is a celebration of the renunciation of national interest,
as if that were the only criterion of a just politics… But when
Israel is being bombed, Boyarin is less queasy about violence, and
now takes the side of Hamas, which has been firing thousands of
missiles at Israeli citizens for weeks on end. No matter the
circumstances, Boyarin keeps repeating, with steam-engine
regularity, that Jews are "collectively engaged in war/wars against
Muslims," and likens all Israeli self-defense to the Nazi Holocaust.

…

Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of Nazi genocide
unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

As
Jewish survivors and descendents of survivors of the Nazi genocide
we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and
the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine…
Genocide begins with the silence of the world.

We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians
in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel,
politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem
Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing
Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.
…
We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to
bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing
genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the
siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic,
cultural and academic boycott of Israel.

Tel Aviv University -
Shlomo Sand's (Dept of History) Newest Incitement on the
Anti-Semitic Pro-Jihad Stalinist-Neo-Nazi Website Counterpunch: The
Gaza War was all Israel's Fault

In
Israel, the population would prefer for Gaza to disappear; but it
does want to keep the Golan Heights. Israel has left Gaza; it wants
only to quietly colonize its 'Judea and Samaria' (the West Bank),
without its ambitions being inhibited by a cruel enemy. In Israel,
the country prays for the extermination of Hamas and its partisans,
and the hardliners add the young who are presumed destined to become
Hamas supporters. Meanwhile, Jewish Israelis aspire to develop and
reinforce the Jewish character of the Israeli state, rendering
invisible a quarter of the citizens, not defined as Jewish.

'No normal state can accept being the target of rocket fire',
claimed the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the
beginning of the war. He's quite right. But it should have also been
necessary to remind Netanyahu that no normal state could accept
that, in its capital, the capital of Jewish people, one-third of its
inhabitants should be deprived of sovereignty and lack democratic
rights. Equally there are few states that obstinately refuse, for
years, to establish definitive borders, in the hope, ill-concealed,
of expanding them further. Does there exist, perhaps, any link
between all these things that characterize Israel's
'abnormality'?....

However, the Israeli government, caring little for the lack of
identification of those responsible, while seeking the killers it
simultaneously engages in a generalized test of force against Hamas
in the West Bank. In contempt of the acknowledged rules of the game,
it has not hesitated to arbitrarily arrest, yet again, an important
number of prisoners, members of Hamas in the West Bank, who had been
freed at the time of the accord involving the exchange for Gilad
Shalit. At the same time, and without arousing the least attention,
five young Palestinians, unarmed, were killed during protest
demonstrations in the West Bank, and a Palestinian adolescent was
burned alive by a gang of Jewish Israelis.

Did the Israeli leaders imagine that Hamas would not be forced to
react after such a declaration of war against it?

Born Again Leftist Amir Hetsroni takes his
personal vendetta with Ariel University to new heights. He endorses
the BDS while demonstrating a basic lack of respect for conventions
of Israeli society in times of crisis.

[S]omething
profound happened in Israeli academia during the war in Gaza,
something severe enough to make me believe the option of boycotting
is no longer out of question in some cases.

I am speaking of the undeniable attempts by
academic management to prevent students and faculty from speaking
their minds and punishing those who protest against the war. At the
Technion, a medical student of Arab origin is about to stand trial
for writing a joke on his Facebook page regarding the three
teenagers kidnapped and murdered near Hebron.

Hadassah College in Jerusalem and Western
Galilee College in Acre suspended students or their scholarships who
wrote that Israel's activities in the Gaza Strip are war crimes. …
Ariel University – as one might have expected of an institute
identified publicly as an academic outpost of the right-wing –
warned students and faculty that any statement contradicting Zionist
tenets violates the university's disciplinary code and would be
treated accordingly.

Obviously, wartime is not the perfect season
to change radical views, but it is a time when the commitment to
freedom of speech and academic freedom was most urgently needed. A
college that prohibits students from taking part in political
protest is not an academic institute. A university that vetoes its
faculty's right to publish non-Zionist (not to say anti-Zionist)
scholarship is not a university. In such cases an academic boycott
might be an acceptable response – not because the institutes are
placed in politically disputed land but since they show a lack of
respect to the basic principles of science and democracy.

In his best Bolshevik thought-control
fashion, Rosen-Zvi and his enraged committee of comrades plot ways
to combat the patriotic spirit of the Israeli public and compel the
non-believers to adhere to their far-leftist concepts.

The
Radical academic Left has maintained an eerie silence throughout
much of the operation, but this week a group of Tenured Leftists
held a symposium to denounce the widespread patriotism that they
fear has infected Israel. The symposium at Tel Aviv University was
titled "How to Think about the War," the purpose of which was to
tell people how to think. And of course the correct way to think is
how the Far Left and communists think.
…
The anti-patriotism rally was organized by Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi, an
ultra-leftist faculty member at TAU in "Hebrew Culture." Rosen Zvi
has a long track record of pseudo-academic Israel bashing (see
http://isracampus.org.il/third level pages/Editorial - Lee Kaplan -
Ishay Rosen-Zvi - leads crusade at Shimon HaTzadik Neighborhood.htm).
He said he organized the symposium because he felt that the
administration's statement about embracing soldiers was silencing
freedom of speech and also because he felt revulsion at the wave of
patriotism and unity in the Israeli media… Rosen Zvi demanded that
the media be cleansed of the endless security-oriented and patriotic
opinion, which is "designed to suppress freedom of speech." (Hebrew
report in Haaretz on this is at
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/.premium-1.2415984).

Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon
(Dept of Political Science) Attacks Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor,
and 'Im Tirtzu' as Leading the Strategy to Delegitimize the
Anti-Israel "Human Rights" NGOs and the New Israel Fund Which Funds
Them

Israel-Hating, "SLAPP-Suit" Neve Gordon
writes his latest babbling diktat while on sabbatical at
Princeton. Gordon is upset that Israeli Society is redefining
freedom of speech to exclude the seditious undermining activities by
"human rights organizations" and other radical left-wing anti-Israel
NGOs. Gordon slanders Israel over these efforts by lumping her with
notorious human rights offenders such as Egypt and China.

Gordon labels "neo-conservatives" with the label "lawfare". This
from Israel's most notorious filer of fascist anti-democratic
SLAPP suit harassments. He does this in an effort to deflect
attention away from the more common definition of the illegitimate,
politically or ideologically motivated attempts at "legal terrorism"
by human rights NGOs with the aim of intimidating Israeli Government
Officials and Military personnel with persecution in international
courts of law.

Gordon quotes from many of his Israeli
far-leftist and anti-Israel cronies to make his point and complains
how Israelis no longer see "human rights" as an acceptable weapon
with which to bash Israel.

In this article, I show how the term lawfare is
being deployed as a speech act in order to encode the field of human
rights as a national security threat. The objective, I claim, is to
hinder the work of human rights organizations that produce and
disseminate knowledge about social wrongs perpetrated by military
personnel and government officials, particularly evidence of acts
emanating from the global war on terrorism—such as torture and
extrajudicial executions—that constitute war crimes and can be
presented in courts that exercise universal jurisdiction.
…
The construction of human rights as a security threat, it should be
emphasized, is carried out not in order to reject human
rights tout court, but in order to curb what neoconservative
groups define as a particular "political" application of human
rights. In other words, the objective of constituting liberal human
rights NGOs as a national security threat is to replace a certain
conception of human rights and to alter certain types of rights work
with ones that better suit the existing sociopolitical relations and
forms of military warfare. Although the discussion concentrates on
processes taking place in Israel, the implications of this campaign
are global, as its ultimate aim is to restrict the utilization of
human rights as a mechanism of subjecting warfare to legal
oversight.
…
The increasing exercise of universal jurisdiction is the main reason
for a noticeable if gradual shift in the past decade in which
liberal human rights NGOs in Israel and abroad are being branded as
a security hazard by neoconservative actors. The movement toward the
securitization of these NGOs is part of a process that began to take
shape after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and even more intensely after
the publication of the UN Fact- Finding Mission on the 2008–2009
Gaza Conflict also known as the Goldstone Report.
…
We know that human rights NGOs are attacked in countries like
Russia, Egypt, and China, but as these countries often simply use
brute force to handle oppositional human rights groups, it is not
surprising that they have not used lawfare as an instrument to clamp
down on human rights NGOs. Lawfare has been deployed as a discursive
device to frame and limit the work of human rights NGOs only in
countries considered to be liberal democracies.
…
Leading the campaign is NGO Monitor, whose aim is to generate and
distribute critical analysis and reports on the output of the
domestic and "international NGO community for the benefit of
government policy makers, journalists, philanthropic organizations
and the general public" (NGO Monitor 2012).8 Founded in 2002 by
political scientist Gerald Steinberg of Bar Ilan University… Its
goals is to expose "distortions of human rights issues in the
Arab-Israeli conflict" and "to end the practice used by certain
self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal
human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically
motivated agendas" (NGO Monitor 2012)… NGO Monitor in the context of
this article is a securitizing actor; it was the first Israeli
organization to voice its criticism of liberal human rights
organizations in security discourse, claiming that they constitute a
national security threat to Israel.
…
Joining NGO Monitor in this campaign was Im Tirtzu (if you
will it),14 a grassroots organization that was established in 2006
in order to renew, in its words, "Zionist discourse, Zionist
thinking and Zionist ideology, to ensure the future of the Jewish
nation and of the State of Israel." … Both NGO Monitor and Im
Tirtzu used their considerable resources to launch a campaign
against liberal Israeli human rights organizations and the New
Israel Fund (NIF), the single largest donor to Israel's human rights
community; hence, the strategy was not only to delegitimize these
organizations in the public's eyes by portraying them as a security
threat to Israel, but also to create a wedge between the rights
groups and their funding sources.
…
The Ministry's logic is straightforward: (1) lawfare is a form of
terrorism; (2) liberal human rights NGOs are lawfare enablers; (3)
hence, liberal human rights NGOs are part of the terrorism network.
The legislature also drew this connection. In January 2011, the
Knesset voted overwhelmingly (41 versus 16) in favor of establishing
a panel of inquiry to probe sources of funding for rights groups
accused of "delegitimizing" the Israeli military… The objective, so
it seems, was to intimidate Israeli rights groups and their donors
in the hope that this would help stifle the production and flow of
human rights knowledge.
…
[I]t is crucial to limit the flow of information reaching these
courts. Accordingly, in order to circumscribe the efficacy of
universal jurisdiction suits, it becomes necessary to hinder the
work of liberal human rights organizations that produce and
disseminate evidence about social wrongs perpetrated by military
personnel and government officials, particularly acts that
constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and
torture.

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law)
Takes Time Off from Promoting Transvestites to Support All Hamas
Demands.

Israel never stopped "occupying" Gaza, he
says, in spite of the absence of a single Israeli there.

Despite
the Israeli illusion that the occupation had ended, the lives of
Gaza residents remained dependent on the arbitrary policies of
Israel's government. At the same time, Israel continued to ignore
peace initiatives like the Saudi proposal and golden opportunities
like the Palestinian unity government. A weakened Hamas entered this
government on terms set by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas, thereby enabling us to conduct negotiations with a
representative Palestinian government. Instead, Netanyahu used the
unity government as an excuse to avoid negotiations, even though now
he is negotiating with Hamas.

If you think that by refusing negotiations,
continuing construction in the settlements and abusing Gaza
residents Netanyahu caused the situation to deteriorate into war,
it's impossible to separate the diplomatic from the military. We
were dragged into war because Netanyahu, contrary to the popular
myth, did not display restraint and moderation....

Why did a war that could have been prevented,
that achieved nothing and that claimed many victims both in Israel
and among civilians in Gaza win such sweeping support? Did the
propaganda and the intimidation silence Israeli society, which has
become insensitive to the suffering we cause the Palestinians, and
even remains silent in the face of a preventable sacrifice of
Israeli lives?

The
Israel Law Review, which is published under Hebrew University
auspices and management, has announced it has no intention of
removing William Schabas from its International Advisory Board,
following his appointment to head a UNHRC commission investigating
the operation in Gaza.

According to a report in Israel Hayom, following Schabas's
appointment, Attorney David Shonberg contacted the university
requesting that Schabas be removed from the institution's Faculty of
Law, but Faculty Dean Prof. Yuval Shany, who is on the board of the
far-left B'Tselem organization, rejected the request.

Shany wrote to Shonberg, "Professor Schabas was appointed to the law
faculty's advisory board due to his expertise in human rights law,
not because of his political views."

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal Gross (Dept of Law)
Leading the Lawfare Battle and Joining the Arab Usurpers of
International Law against Israel

Gross slanders Israel as a land-grabbing, power-hungry,
war-mongering evil entity utilizing the ambiguity of International
Law, and uses it to shackle Israel with a suicide pact. Gross joins
Israel's detractors by
inappropriately applying the Geneva Convention and draws moral
equivalence with terrorist organizations. He rejects the
legitimate Israeli claim to sovereignty over all lands West of
the Jordan River under International Law and blames Israel for the
dispossession and exploitation of "Arab" resources.

International
law can often be subject to different interpretations, be used to
give a stamp of approval to various injustices, and be part of the
problem rather than the solution. But the Palestinian request to
stipulate that international law be one of the bases for
negotiations was clearly motivated by the view that, in terms of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the standard interpretation of
contemporary international law points mainly in one direction: It
prohibits the acquisition of territory by force; recognizes the
right of people living under foreign rule to self-determination; and
prohibits an occupying country from settling its population in the
occupied territory.
…
These are the legal positions the International Court of Justice in
The Hague adopted when it discussed the issue of the separation
barrier, and even though the committee headed by former Supreme
Justice Edmond Levy (appointed by the Israeli government to explore
the legalization of unauthorized outposts) adopted the opposite
position in its findings in 2012, its stance is not accepted by most
experts in international law.

However, the Israeli position, reflected in that quote from Livni,
is not to conduct negotiations in accordance with international law.
This might seem to be a reasonable, pragmatic approach that gives
preference to discussion and compromise between the parties in order
to attain good and viable solutions, without an obligation to adhere
meticulously to legal principles. But in reality, in the
Israeli-Palestinian context, this is not what abandoning
international law really means: What it means is that negotiations
shall be conducted in a framework in which there is an imbalance of
power between the parties, in a way that affects the situation on
the ground and the results.
…
Above all, the agreements did not expressly prohibit continued
settlement activity. Moreover, because it was determined that the
settlements would be one of the issues to be agreed upon in a final
status accord, Israel was able to use that as an excuse when
confronted with claims about the illegality of the settlements, as
if the Palestinians' consent to discuss them later effectively
allowed their authorization in the meantime, and nullified the
prohibition of such as stated in the Geneva Convention.
…
International law is not a panacea, but in the present situation,
and considering the present balance of power, adherence to the
Palestinians' rights as derived from it as a basis for any agreement
– which the Palestinians demanded and Livni refused – sounds much
more reasonable. So, even if in theory, negotiations can lead to
good practical agreements on both sides, without close adherence to
the law (as in the case of territorial exchanges, for instance), in
light of the context and after many years of experience – if we want
to keep the "peace process" from once more becoming a cover for
exploitation and dispossession, the rights granted to the
Palestinians by international law should be immediately implemented,
without being subordinated to negotiations colored by an imbalance
of power.

Prof. Eva Illouz,
President of Betzalel and anti-Jewish
Hebrew U sociologist, promotes Sadomasochism and "Bondage" when
she is not Battling against Freedom of Speech for Non-Leftists

Have
you ever had sadomasochistic fantasies? If you are like me, not only
have you never had any, but you even view sadomasochism as an exotic
and very distant land. Assuming that most people are boringly
similar to me, then it is a puzzle how "Fifty Shades of Grey" -- a
romance novel in which BDSM (short for Bondage & Discipline,
Dominance & Submission, Sadism & Masochism) is the central plot
motif -- became a phenomenal global success.
…
Moreover, I would argue that the sadomasochist relationship in
general is a highly plausible solution to the complicated and
uncertain labors of love for a number of reasons.

By definition, a BDSM relationship contains both pain and pleasure
and thus neutralizes the ambivalence of relationships that alternate
between pain and pleasure.

One of
the greatest difficulties of modern relationships is relinquishing
one's autonomy to another because, in doing that, our sense of
dignity is always at stake. The BDSM contract does the logically
and psychologically impossible: It makes one willingly give
up one's will and autonomy to another. In that sense, it solves
the problem of relinquishing one's autonomy.

The
equality that has been promoted by 40 years of feminism demands
ongoing, ceaseless negotiation. The BDSM contract stops the
endless bargaining by setting up and freezing caricatured and
exaggerated roles and positions. In fact, BDSM makes inequality
acceptable because it is consensual, contractual and pleasurable.

Finally, sadomasochism can take place only between two people who
fully trust each other. The dominant partner stops hurting the
submissive partner as soon as he or she says the code word. In
that sense, BDSM is the very performance of the scarcest
commodity: trust.

Against this context, it is our ordinary heterosexual relationships
that have become queer indeed: complicated and elusive and
impossible to predict and control. They demand an enormous
sophistication in our capacity to play many roles, endlessly
negotiate boundaries and make sense of our own and the other's
ambivalence. If conventional relationships have become queer, then
the romance between Grey and Steele suggests that BDSM actually
holds the promise of erasing that queerness by giving us access to
erotic ecstasy without the anxiety of ambivalence and uncertainty.

Illouz undermines legitimate Israeli security
concerns and marginalizes the IDF Code of Ethics in an effort to
misleadingly paint a brutalized, unhealthy country in constant state
of anxiety. Illouz rejects any non-leftist alterations to the
natural ebb and flow of discourse within changing demographics of a
society over time. Illouz promotes the fallacy that religious
institutions and democracy are diametrically opposed in the attempt
to vilify the Religious Right. She supports the creation of a
yet-nameless far-leftist fascist organization which would then
impose anti-democratic measures in the name of "protecting
democracy."

Illouz:
Where you see human beings, Israelis see enemies. In front of
enemies, you close ranks, you unite in fear for your life, and you
do not ponder about the fragility of the other. Israel has a split,
schizophrenic self-awareness: It cultivates its strength and yet
cannot stop seeing itself as weak and threatened.
…Illouz: I think Israelis have lost what we can call a
"humanitarian sensibility," the capacity to identify with the
suffering of a distant other. In Israel, there has been a change in
perception of the "Palestinian other." The Palestinian has become a
true enemy in the perception of Israelis, in the sense that "they
are there" and "we are here." They ceased having a face and even a
name.

SPIEGEL: Do you have an explanation for the shift?

Illouz: … The messianic right has progressively gained power
in Israel. It used to be marginal and illegitimate; it is now
increasingly mainstream. This radical right sits in Parliament,
controls budgets and has changed the nature of discourse. Many
Israelis do not understand the radical nature of the right in
Israel. It successfully disguises itself as "patriotic" or "Jewish."…SPIEGEL: You describe a fearful, anxious country.

Illouz: Fear is deeply engrained in Israeli society. Fear of
the Shoah, fear of anti-Semitism, fear of Islam, fear of Europeans,
fear of terror, fear of extermination. You name it. And fear
generates a very particular type of thinking, which I would call
"catastrophalist." You always think about the worst case scenario,
not about a normal course of events. In catastrophalist scenarios,
you become allowed to breach many more moral norms than if you
imagined a normal course of events.
…SPIEGEL: Does this fear justify the kind of brutal violence
that has been visited upon the civilian population in the Gaza
Strip?

Illouz: Of course it doesn't. I'm only saying that fear is
central to the Israeli psyche. These fears are cynically used by
leaders like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He makes Israelis
believe that they all want to destroy us. Hamas wants to destroy us,
the UN wants to destroy us, al-Qaida and Iran want to destroy us.
ISIS wants to destroy us. The European anti-Semites want to destroy
us. This is basically the filter through which a conflict with Hamas
is interpreted by the ordinary Israeli. Another dimension of this
prism is that "they" are not human beings. Palestinians are
dehumanized because they put their soldiers amongst civilians, send
their children to fight, spend and waste their money on building
deadly tunnels rather than on building up their own society. Along
with the dehumanization of the other, Israelis have a strong sense
of their own moral superiority. "We ask people to get out of their
houses; we call them on the phone to make sure civilians are
evacuated. We behave humanly," the Israeli thinks. An army with good
manners.
…Illouz: Israel started as a modern nation. It derived its
legitimacy from the fact that it had democratic institutions. But it
was also building highly anti-modern institutions in wanting to
create a Jewish democracy by giving power to rabbis, in creating
deep ethnic inequalities between different ethnic groups such Jews
of Arab countries vs. Jews of European descent; Arabs vs. Jews; Jews
vs. non-Jews. It thus blocked universalist thinking.

SPIEGEL: Would you say that the Jewish character of the
country has subsumed the democratic character?

Illouz: Yes, definitely. We are at the point where it has
become clear that Jewishness has hijacked democracy and its
contents. It happened increasingly when the school curriculum
started getting changed and emphasizing more Jewish content and less
universal content…
…Illouz: The only response is to create a vast camp of people
who defend democracy. The right-left divide is no longer important.
There is something more urgent right now: the defense of democracy.
The voice of the extreme right is much louder and clearer than it
was before. That's what's new: a racist right that is not ashamed of
itself, that persecutes dissenters and even people who dare express
compassion for the other side. The real danger to Israel and its
sustainability comes from within. The fascist and racist elements
are no less a security threat than the outside enemies.

Hebrew University and Bezalel Academy - Eva Illouz (HebrewU
Dept of Sociology and Bezalel
President) demonizes the Right for daring to criticize the Left
while preaching incitement against the Right. Sapir College - Julia
Chaitin (Dept of Social Work) oozes defeatism.

Dr.
Julia Zeitlin ("Another Voice", Kibbutz Orim): In order for our
lives to be good in Israel, their lives must be good in Gaza. We
barely survived "Operation Pillar of Defense", now we are trying to
keep our lives together. We are trying not to fall into the abyss of
this war. I beseech the best minds in the country to find a way to
save us from the war machine before it is too late.

Prof.
Eva Illouz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Fear has captured the
center of the political stage. Arabs fear to walk down streets, the
Left fear to walk down streets, and people fear to defend human
rights. Israel's security has become a state of Fear and its
citizens are afraid. This fear is not imaginary, this fear is not
imaginary, but is the creation of a bunch of thugs, some of whom are
sitting in the Knesset, some walking around the streets, some
sitting in front of their computers or their Facebook pages or
Twitter accounts. They act as if this country is their own, and they
alone own this place. These people have declared a biblical war
against us, against Amalek.

Hebrew
University - Zeev Sternhell (Dept of Political Science) - Israel at
Fault for the War on Terror

In classic anti-Semitic trope, Sternhell gives terror a pass and
demands a double standard from the Jews. He would sacrifice the
safety and sanity of the residents of the south on his altar of
far-leftist "humanism" to pursue a "diplomatic" solution of the Oslo
Failure kind. Sternhell demands far-leftist anti-democratic measures
to be implemented by the democratically elected government and
denies that 5 million Israelis under threat of Hamas missile attack
is an existential threat to Israeli livelihood. Can we finally
conclude that Sternhell's common sense has finally succumbed to the
ravages of time?

It
should be said at once that it is very doubtful there are many
Palestinians who are capable of seeing and understanding the
Israelis, but because the Israelis are the strong ones, who control
the lives of the Palestinians, we should demand much more of
ourselves than we do of them, the occupied.

And so, despite the mortal danger, the suffering and the anxiety
that are battering Israelis in the south, now is precisely the right
time to make an effort to negotiate a comprehensive settlement. Now
is the time to think both deeply and for the long term, and to come
out against the prevailing opinion that all we can do is to either
wait for the next crisis or reoccupy parts of the Gaza Strip.

This is also the moment of truth for Israeli democracy. Democracy
means accepting the decisions of the majority in the Knesset, it
does not require that we accept its opinions. The democratic system
is designed for mature, rational citizens who think for themselves
and who recognize that whatever human rights they demand for
themselves are also the rights of the other…

The citizen who refuses to follow the majority has the right to say
wholeheartedly that the present situation is not a war of survival
for Israel… Therefore the individual citizen has not only the right,
but the duty, to openly support negotiations toward a comprehensive
agreement.
…
The entire past year was wasted on the refusal of the right-wing
government to hold serious talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas and on pointless demands for Israel's recognition as a Jewish
state… Doesn't common sense demand that we try a different method?

University of
Michigan Law and Tel Aviv University - Lawyer Noam Wiener Seeks to
Indict all of Israel

Wiener used his practical experience in "human rights" to litigate
the Arab side against Israel. Wiener also used his clout at the
International Court of Justice to intimidate Israeli Officers with
persecution and harassment in Europe from the International Criminal
Court. What influence does Wiener have in the UN's Office of Legal
Affairs as an officer of anti-Israel lawfare?

Noam
Wiener is one of the anti-Israel "Refuseniks" who refuses to serve
in the IDF, especially in occupied territories from which all the
terror is launched against Israel.
…
While Wiener grudgingly says Israel has a right to exist (how big of
him!), he continually gives credence and justification to
"Palestinian grievances." Wiener, the lawyer, dove into the fray
when the Arabs went directly to the UN seeking statehood and ICC
jurisdiction in violation of the Oslo Accords.
…
Noam Wiener received his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University Law School
in 2001 and his BA in political science from Tel-Aviv University
that same year… During 2001-2002, Wiener worked in a boutique law
firm in Tel-Aviv where he assisted in the litigation of "human
rights" cases pertaining to the effects of the Israeli occupation of
Southern Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Meaning he
always took the Arab side against Israel.
…
Quoting Wiener again in
972 Magazine:

'This brings us back
to Omri Barborg. If anybody in the Judge Advocate General or the
Ministry of Justice thinks that by having sham trials Israel will
get off the international hook, they have another thing coming.
Convictions without punishment may convince those who think Barborg
should not have been tried in the first place, but shielding Israeli
soldiers by trying them in Israel with the sole intent of protecting
them abroad is just not going to work.

'If I were Lieutenant Colonel Barborg, I would think twice before
visiting Europe or Latin America in the near future."

So here we have the spectacle of a leftist Israeli lawbreaker
threatening a military officer with persecution and harassment in
Europe!
…
Wiener is really upset that Israel attempted to make it more
difficult for the Hamas to smuggle in advanced rockets into Gaza.
How dare Israel have a "blockade" to stop those rockets! "In
response to this takeover, in light of Hamas's refusal to recognize
Israel's existence, and pursuant to the whole rationale of leaving
the Gaza strip in the first place – relinquishing responsibility for
the population and declaring an end to the occupation – Israel
declared Gaza a hostile power and proceeded to engage in a naval,
areal and land blockade of the Gaza strip. Concurrently, and in this
situation it is extremely difficult to determine what was the cause,
and what was the effect…"
…
Wiener chooses selective history and events to justify his services
as a lawyer in promoting the Hamas and Palestinians in general as
victims of a recalcitrant Israel that breaks the law.

Which law is that? The one that says that murdering Jews should not
count?

Israeli
Academics Among Those Who Insist the EU Force Israel to Surrender to
the Hamas

The petition presents Israel
as an unprovoked agent of death and destruction. No reference to any Hamas war-crime
violations or rocket fire mentioned.

We,
the undersigned citizens of Israel, call on the European Council,
Commission and Parliament to pressure Israel to accept the terms of
truce presented by Hamas (as they were published in Israeli and
international media outlets).
…
Israel's reluctance to seriously address all political and
diplomatic proposals made by Palestinian leadership, regional and
international mediators, is costly in lives. It also gives rise to
worrying tendencies within the Israeli public, swayed by
governmental rhetoric of "no partner". This can no longer be
acquiesced.
…
We are all appalled by the death and destruction in Gaza. Yet, this
is not simply a tragedy; this is a policy. It can and it must be
changed. It is in the power of political leaders and peaceful
nations. We urge you to act immediately so that Israel ceases all
violence against the people of Gaza, ends the siege and takes action
towards a just peace.

Following
these recent worrying events, Saturday's Paris rally was classified
"high risks" by the Prefecture of Police. The government called up
2,300 policemen to halt any violence and protect the Jewish
properties in the area.

Similar, but authorized, rallies took place concurrently in other
French cities. Controversial historian Shlomo Sand attended the
protest in Nice where he declared himself "ashamed of being Israeli"
in front of a cheerful crowd.

The Parisian gathering was organized by groups and parties such as
France's most important far-left movement, the New Anti-Capitalist
Party, the Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, Palestine
Generation and Fatah France. Its aim was to "oppose corrupt and
hypocritical leaders who stand with Israel and to thwart a colonial
project that combines a racist ideology with a lethal technology and
whose goal is to neutralize us," according to the Facebook page of
the event.

At the height of the terrorist assault on Israel, the "Academics"
publish a vile misleading statement in the Haaretz Hebrew edition.
Making a ludicrous equivalence between Terror and the War Against
Terror, the Israeli "Academics" would deny Israel's right to defend
its citizens, with each Hamas missile fired being casus belli for
the start of Operation "Protective Edge." The signed also demand
that the International Community impose a one-sided, Pro-Arab,
Rwanda-style resolution of the conflict that grants the return of
Arab refugees and thus destroy the Jewish and Democratic State of
Israel.

We,
the undersigned, are united in calling for an end to Israel's
obscene assault on Gaza.
…
The U.S. and international community have stood by and watched while
Gaza burns. In a public statement, the Obama administration
denounced the firing of rockets at Israel but made no mention of the
massive air assault on Gaza. This shows an appalling moral
obtuseness. The only mildly critical statement toward Israel it
could manage was to oppose a ground invasion. This weak, ineffectual
response which will do nothing to stop the killing.

The current war and especially an escalating ground invasion must be
resolutely opposed by the world community. If Israel proceeds with
such an onslaught, sanctions should be threatened. The Security
Council must take action to call the Gaza attack what it is: the
wholesale slaughter of a civilian population.

There is an international consensus on the necessary first steps to
resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: a return to 1967
borders, Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two peoples, and the
right of refugees expelled during the Nakba to return to Israel. Any
efforts to conclude peace not based on these principles will fail
the test of justice and will not be long-lived. The clash of armies
and militant groups will never solve the conflict. A political
solution is the only way. If the parties cannot agree to this
themselves then the international community must step in to force a
resolution.

Using anti-democratic measures, Peled-Elhanan turns to the EU to
with the goal of imposing her far-leftist dictates on the Israeli
Public. Impervious to change, Peled-Elhanan's blind chanting of the
"Settlements are the sole obstacle to peace" mantra rings hollow
while Hamas war-criminals target Israeli cities, Syrians die by the
hundreds of thousands, Islamic Fundamentalists ravage war-torn Iraq,
and Egypt suffers crippling economic crisis and governmental
instability. Peled-Elhanan has also
blamed Israel for the death of her daughter a in a terrorist
attack, as well as expressed
sympathy and admiration for her daughter's killers.

As
an Israeli longing for peace and justice, I believe Europe has to
contain the settlement policy with greater determination and more
concrete measures. The world increasingly understands the threat
that the settlements pose to peace and stability in the region. Over
time, neither Palestinians nor Israelis can survive without freedom
and independence for the Palestinians. Already, the undemocratic
character of the state of Israel is increasingly transforming it
into an
apartheid state.
…
As a laureate of the European Parliament's
Sakharov Prize for Human Rights, and as a mother and a human
being, I call on the EU to use all the diplomatic and economic tools
at its disposal to help save my country from the abyss of eternal
occupation and injustice.

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal
Gross (Dept of Law) Issues a Legal Fatwa Against Cutting Power to
Gaza

On the Social Sciences chat list, the academic
debate rages over the legality of a theoretical Israeli
discontinuation of the Israeli-produced electric supply to Gaza, for
which Hamas and the PA owe half a billion dollars in unpaid bills.
Gross posts a fatwa that sticks Israel with the continued supply of
electricity under the belief that Gaza is still 'occupied' despite
having been rendered Judenrein.

[from
the posted link]

For the
purpose of answering the question posed, the question whether the
Gaza Strip constitutes territory occupied by Israel is decisive….
Israel, thus, remained in full control of the lifelines of the Gaza
Strip. It is submitted that this is at least equivalent to a de
facto control which, according to Art. 42 of the Hague Regulations,
is constitutive for an occupation. If this argument is accepted, the
cut of electricity and water supply would be a violation of Israel's
duty to provide for the welfare of the population.

Second, like the group of experts [Eyal Benvenisti, Aeyal Gross,
David Kretzmer, and others - Isracampus], Bothe believes that Israel
does not have to formally occupy Gaza in order to have a positive
obligation to provide it with water and power.

Prof. Phyllis Chesler accuses the Left of murder, ethnic cleansing,
and demanding more Jews be killed. For all those Israeli Academics
who would qualify:
follow here.

J'accuse: every single Western academic, each intellectual and
journalist who has ever circulated and signed a Resolution against
Israel and in favor of Hamas is a supporter of Islamist barbarism
against Western civilization.They are the West's equivalent of suicide (or really, homicide)
bombers.

These are the
professors and
activists who are, essentially, anti-American in their point of
view and who, like President Obama (who studied with them), want a
de-militarized and diminished America. The 21st century
manifestation of this sentiment in academia is
the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, whose aim
is to starve the Israeli government by bullying even further already
indoctrinated academics, artists, and businessmen into not working
in Israel and/or into covering the news in only a pro-Hamas and
pro-Palestinian way.
…
This educated ship of fools demands a proportionality in
asymmetrical warfare that only means one thing: that not enough Jews
are being killed. So far, no traditional army with men in uniform
knows how to fight, according to Western rules of war, against
combatants who are not in uniform, hide behind their own civilians,
and hide their heaviest weaponry in schools, hospitals, and private
homes; combatants who value death over life and who have made life a
living hell for their own people.

Make no mistake: This bleating barnyard of sheep do not really care
about Muslim deaths. They are silent as Muslims are slaughtering and
butchering other Muslims all over the Middle East and the Islamic
world… They only howl in rage when Jews kill Muslim terrorists in
self-defense and in defense of Israeli civilians.
…
The Western academics are "merely" calling for the ethnic cleansing
of Jews from the West Bank and Jerusalem—all the while accusing
Israel of being the world's greatest ethnic cleanser.

Gordon channels blame for the militarization
of schools, mosques, and hospitals away from the Hamas, who made
them targets by storing and firing missiles from those sites. Gordon
states that Gazans have no bombshelters and "nowhere to flee." This
is not true. Millions of $$$ and tons of cement have been sunk into
a tunnel network under Gaza for Hamas' cowardly exclusive protection
from Israeli attack. Gordon justifies the use of the immoral and
illegitimate human shield tactic as a legitimate form of resistance
for thwarting a moral army and a justified war.

For
Palestinians living in Gaza today, simply spending time in their own
homes, frequenting a mosque, going to a hospital or to school has
become a dangerous enterprise since any one of these architectural
edifices can become at any moment a target. One can no longer safely
assume that the existence of masses of human bodies - even the
bodies of children - in civilian spaces can serve as defence of the
weak against the lethal capacity of the hi-tech states.
…
Hence, the use of human shields is not only a violation. In
contemporary asymmetric urban wars, accusing the enemy of using
human shields helps validate the claim that the death of "untargeted
civilians" is merely collateral damage. When all civilians are
potential human shields, when each and every civilian can become a
hostage of the enemy, then all enemy civilians become killable.
…
The residents of Gaza are bombed by cutting edge F-16 fighter jets
and drones, yet they do not have bomb shelters, and they have
nowhere to flee. Israel's residents are bombed mostly by makeshift
rockets, many of which have been intercepted by Iron Dome missiles.
The majority of the population in Israel has access to shelters and
can flee out of the rocket's range.
…
The crux of the matter is that in the context of contemporary
asymmetric warfare, the weak do not have many options. When there
are no bomb shelters, people remain at home during extensive
bombardment. And if, like in the case of the Palestinians in Gaza,
fleeing is not an option - because all exits from the strip have
been closed, or because the neighbour's house is under the exact
same threat as one's own, or because one is already a refugee and
does not want to become a refugee anew - staying put, which the
high-tech states term "illegal human shields," constitutes a form of
resistance.

The caring Left protect their own when one
of theirs commits a rape, however, the Tenured Left enforce a silence
and censor protocol for any non-leftist opinions on the subject.

It
seems Kedar was interviewed recently on Israeli radio about what can
be done to stop suicide bomber mass murderers. This is clearly a
difficult problem since threatening to kill them is not effective
for obvious reasons. Kedar answered that such people are not
deterred by anything except possibly threats to their own family.
Specifically, Kedar said in the interview: "The only thing that can
deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed
them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be
raped."

Well, you can imagine what sort of effect THAT statement had. Note
that Kedar is hardly advocating that they be raped,
just making an observation about what incentives, if any, would
affect suicide bombers.
…
Now the Caring Left so aghast at Kedar's words is curiously silent
when leftists deal with the subject of rape in cavalier manner.
Remember that infamous MA thesis sponsored by Hebrew University far
leftists that "found" that Israeli troops do not rape Arab women
because the Jews are such racists? A thesis awarded a special prize
by the Hebrew University and hailed as path-breaking research by the
Left…
Curiously the Caring Left has also maintained its studied silence
when actual rape takes place. For years everyone in academia knew
about the allegations that Hebrew University's Eyal Ben Ari
(sociology) had been raping his students, but because Ben Ari is a
senior radical anti-Israel leftist, the Left refused to speak out
because of their sense of solidarity with him. Until the
Hebrew University fired him due to growing public outrage. Ben
Ari, of course, was also the supervisor of that thesis accusing Jews
of being racists because they do NOT rape Arabs. I guess Ben Ari
just wanted to prove how unracist he was, and the Caring Left had
his back.

As an adverse consequence to
debunking Ari
Shavit's accounting of the
supposed Lydda "massacre," Historian
Martin Kramer reaches the conclusion that Morris, the source for Shavit's "massacre" claim, has laid the foundations for Israel's
detractors to prove the "born in sin" argument. The "original sin"
not being expulsions but massacres, each one pre-planned and sealed
up into a separate "black box of Zionism", a term presented in
Shavit's book, with Lydda being the prime example. In the age of
exaggeration and decontextualization by the Post-Zionists and New
Historians, any disproportionate Israeli defeat of its enemies
constitutes a massacre. According to this theory of disproportionality, to sustain its very existence, Israel must
massacre again and again, decade after decade. Thus "Israel thus can
never be legitimate; it is a perpetual war crime, on an ever-larger
scale."

In this narrative, the "original sin" of Israel's birth wasn't
expulsion. The Palestinians wouldn't have fled their homes had there
not been repeated and planned massacres, which have since been
sealed up in "black boxes." Lydda stands as the prime example.

"Disproportion speaks massacre, not 'battle.'" This equally
repellent statement, by Morris, is just as defamatory of Israel as
Shavit's. On Morris's principle, every occasion on which Israel
exacts a numerically "disproportionate" cost in the lives of
others—as it often must do, if it is to deter and defeat its
enemies—constitutes evidence of massacre; to sustain its very
existence, Israel must massacre again and again, decade after
decade… Israel thus can never be legitimate; it is a perpetual war
crime, on an ever-larger scale. So saith the "disproportion."

Shavit and Morris thus validate the argument for Israel's
dismantlement. As anyone familiar with their politics knows, that is
not their intent. Israel is precious to both of them, and they call
themselves Zionists. But at an earlier point in their lives, they
became habituated to ripping events from their context, which was
the hallmark of what was once called the "new history." Their
treatment of Lydda is a relapse into a past addiction, which
consists of simplification, exaggeration, and decontextualization—in
short, the very behavior displayed by those now addicted to hatred
of Israel.

The other day, someone posted a
video clip from Lod (Lydda). It shows a demonstration by
Arab residents (who comprise about a quarter of the town's
population) and possibly some Jews, in Palmah Square, alongside the
small mosque. The demonstrators, waving Palestinian flags, are
protesting against "Protective Edge," Israel's operation in Gaza.
They carry a large banner with this message: "Stop the massacre in
Gaza."

At the site of one presumed "massacre," yet another is presumed.
This is how myths evolve into a mythology. And that is why it's so
important to recognize that even in Lydda, supposed site of the
"largest massacre" of 1948, we just can't be certain there was a
"massacre" at all.

The Sorbonne and Hebrew U - Esther BenBassa (Dept
of Jewish Studies): The Bete Noire of the French Jewish
Establishment

Esther
BenBassa is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Although born in Turkey to a Sephardic family, she partly grew up in
Israel and earned her baccalaureate at Tel Aviv U. After earning her
PhD abroad, she taught briefly at Hebrew U. in Jerusalem. Although
her parents were strong Israel supporters, after their deaths,
BenBassa decided to join the Eurotrash in denouncing and demonizing
Israel, particularly in France. She blames Israel for the failure of
the "peace process".

BenBassa has become a celebrity in France, as yet another Jewish
intellectual that blames Israel for all the Palestinian "suffering."
Her trendy anti-Israel position gets her invited non-stop onto
French TV, where she enunciates such exercises in Newthink oxymorons
as: "I love Israel. But because I am so attached to the country, I
defend the Palestinian cause."
…
BenBassa goes on to claim that the reason why Israel is treating the
Palestinians so "badly" is because they are inflicting similar
"suffering" on the Palestinians as the Jews suffered in the
Holocaust. That, says she, is the real reason for anti-Semitism.
Esther: Tu es betes comme tes pieds.
…
She claims she fights daily against racism, including anti-Semitism,
the blame for which she often puts squarely on Jewish shoulders. She
says the Jews obsess over the Holocaust.
…
So this racism-hating scholar sees nothing wrong with embracing the
worst racists and misogynists in the world, the Hamas. And how dare
the Jews bring up that tired old Holocaust?
…
BenBassa explains how she arrived at her worldview on the Jews and
how they themselves are responsible for world anti-Semitism,
particularly among the French. She claims the Jews made the
Holocaust something sacred, almost turning it into a secular
religion. In France, the Emancipation in 1791 of the Jews defined
individual Jews as "French of Mosaic persuasion," rendering them
Jews on the inside but not on the outside.
…
She feels that Holocaust consciousness in France led to a change for
the worse in the Republic's attitude toward pesky ethnic minorities.
"When Jacques Chirac admitted France's responsibility for the
Holocaust in 1995 it was the first time the Republic gave
recognition to a particular community." In other words, Jews deserve
no special recognition by France for that country contributing to
their annihilation by the Nazis. And if the Jews speak out, well,
that's why there's anti-Semitism against them.
…
She demands: "It must stop. The Masada syndrome of concentrating
only on Jewish suffering is fuelling the conflict between Israel and
the Palestinians, which, in turn, is linked to anti-Semitism. It has
to be stopped because this anti-Semitism is making life in the
Diaspora much more difficult. If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
continues, anti-Semitism will grow everywhere."

It is no wonder that, with views like these, Professor Benbassa is
the bete noire of the French Jewish establishment. After all, if one
ascribes to her logic, if Jews embrace their anti-Semites and ignore
the Holocaust, then maybe those anti-Semites will stop killing them.

Hebrew
University - David Enoch (Dept
of Law) Exposed as an "Academic Thug" Silencing
non-Far-Leftist Opinions

In true Bolshevistic style common to the far-leftist Israeli
"academics," Enoch seeks to harm the reputation of a colleague
without checking any facts in a fit of far-leftist rage. Enoch makes
a leftist anti-democratic fool of himself and is the laughingstock
of the American academic community when the colleague denies ever
having made the comments that prompted Enoch's senseless attack.
Enoch's behavior, and others like him, create an atmosphere where
"dissenters are afraid to voice their opinions."

Professor
David Enoch of Hebrew University
chose c [to denounce Prof. Bell, without providing any
explanation as to why Bell's legal analysis is wrong], and concluded
as follows: "I think that the legal academic community should do
what it can to make it clear that there are consequences of such
abuse of legal pseudo-scholarship and status in the service of gross
immoralities – if nothing else, in terms of reputation." (As I was
about to post this, I see Prof. Bell
has responded here.)

So Prof. Enoch is basically seeking to harm Prof. Bell's reputation,
without providing literally ANY documentation that Prof. Bell is
wrong, much less so egregiously wrong that his work should be
considered "pseudo-scholarship" and his reputation should suffer. We
should instead just take Prof. Enoch's word for it because, … well
it's not really clear why we should according to Enoch, except that
Prof. Bell's work suits Israel's "right-wing," and therefore
apparently must be legally incorrect.

I'm sure Leiter himself could tell us which logical fallacy this
best represents, but I can't recall ever seeing a law professor
attack another law professor in such a bullying manner, and without
providing ANY indication that the attack is deserved beyond "trust
me."
…
As an aside, as a colleague points out, bullying of a somewhat less
egregious sort seems relatively common among international law
scholars, where those who are outside the predominant leftist
consensus are considered beyond the pale. Keep that in mind next
time you see a reference to "consensus" in international law
scholarship, and consider whether it means anything beyond,
"dissenters are afraid to voice their opinions."

As Hamas missiles fall on Israeli civilians, Israeli "Academics"
place a narrow-minded emphasis on Arab suffering in Gaza.

The signatories to this statement, all academics at Israeli
universities, wish it to be known that they utterly deplore the
aggressive military strategy being deployed by the Israeli
government. The slaughter of large numbers of wholly innocent
people, is placing yet more barriers of blood in the way of the
negotiated agreement which is the only alternative to the occupation
and endless oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel must agree
to an immediate cease-fire, and start negotiating in good faith for
the end of the occupation and settlements, through a just peace
agreement.

University of
East London - Haim Bresheeth (Dept of Israel Bashing) Updates his
Petition Denouncing Israel for Defending its Citizens

Bresheeth rides anti-Israel sentiments in academia to describe a
very narrow-minded view of Arab civilian suffering during Operation
Protective Edge in order to bash Israel. The petition also has
special section for the
Israeli Tenured "Academic" Traitors organized by Rachel Giora
(Tel Aviv University).

An
open letter was sent on July 13, 2014 to Israel's academics, who, on
the whole, remained silent in the face of the deterioration over the
last few weeks, and the slaughter of the innocents in Gaza by the
IDF…

We hope that this call may help to bring about a change in Israel's
public debate about this illegal and immoral use of the army in
Gaza, constituting war crimes, according to the UN. The list of
signatories speaks for itself, we feel. This is clear evidence of
the raw nerve struck by the action, and the widespread anger and
frustration amongst academics and intellectuals everywhere about the
Israeli continued slaughter, apparently immune to legal challenges
and to pressure from all quarters. Let us hope that this list is
only a begining of larger actions against the brutalities of the
illegal occupation.

Since the operation began, at least 205 Palestinians have been
killed (as of the morning July 16th) and over 2,000 have been
wounded. Gaza hospitals are reporting a dire shortage of medicine
and equipment, particularly for trauma injuries. Thousands of
northern Gaza residents fled their homes on Sunday after Israel
issued warnings of forthcoming air strikes. Numerous homes have been
destroyed, as well as the very fragile infrastructure, severely
damaged in 2008/9 and 2012, and hardly repaired since then.
…
If you are an Israeli academic and agree with us on the urgent need
to bring an immediate end to those atrocities, and to act to end the
illegal occupation in Palestine, please sign the statement at the
bottom of this letter by sending Prof. Rachel Giora (Rachel Giora <rachel.giora@gmail.com>)
a mail with your name, title and affiliation.

Ben Gurion University - Neve Gordon
(Dept of Political Science) Despairs from the Wall-to-Wall Israeli
Support of Operation Protective Edge

In an Op-Ed
on Al-Jazeera, Little Neve
Gordon demands to know: How dare Israel
retaliate for Hamas atrocities instead of capitulating to terrorist
demands?

Finally, the left has organised several
protests, fifty people here a hundred people there, and, while often
this is how resistance begins, it is not clear how within the
current atmosphere these sober voices will amount to anything. It is
a time of deep despair for all those who envision a different and
brighter future for this land.

Tel Aviv
University - Aeyal Gross Upset at Israel for Defending its Citizens

Gross takes time off from promoting transvestites to denounce Israel
for "war crimes." Gross also suggests a new strategy for terrorists:
targeting the civilian residences of IDF battalion commanders.

Although
each instance must be separately and carefully examined, the data
that indicates that many of the casualties in Gaza are civilians,
combined with some reports about the circumstances in which these
civilians died, raises the prospect that Israel has committed
forbidden actions, some of which could possibly be defined as war
crimes. The quantity of these cases makes it very difficult to
absolve them based on arguments of "inaccuracy" or "error."

According to the figures published to date, more than a fifth of the
dead in Gaza are children, and many more are civilian noncombatants.
Certain instances are particularly troubling…
…
As Amir Oren wrote here on Friday, the IDF is not only striking
buildings used to store rockets and as launching pads, but the
houses of the families of Hamas commanders. These cases are
troubling and raise the question: What would Israel say about an
attack on the civilian residence of an IDF battalion commander,
killing the civilians living there? If such an act is illegal, then
so it what is being done in Gaza.

The petition, promoted by Micah Leshem, Rachel Giora, and Haim
Bresheeth, places the fault for Arab Missile War-Crimes on Israel
for searching for the murdering kidnappers of the three Jewish
youths.

These
are desperately bad times. The government of Israel, having provoked
the firing of rockets by its rampage through the West Bank, is now
using that response as the pretext for an aerial assault on Gaza
which has already cost scores of lives. An atmosphere of hysteria is
being deliberately provoked in Israel, and whole communities are
being subject to collective punishment, a war crime. People are
dying, and for what? To prevent a unity government of Fatah and
Hamas?
…
We invite you, as fellow academics and intellectuals, to join your
voices in an open and resounding protest about these war crimes by
the Israeli government – your government. We urge you to stand up
and be counted, to answer the call of your Gazan colleagues and make
your voice heard. We hope that you will be able and willing to come
together and voice your total opposition to the war crimes committed
in your name!

If you are an Israeli academic and agree with us on the urgent need
to bring an immediate end to those atrocities, and to act to end the
illegal occupation in Palestine, please sign the statement at the
bottom of this letter by sending us a mail with your name, title and
affiliation.

Ben Gurion University - Oren Yiftachel
(Dept of Geography) Supporting the Bedouin Invasion of State Lands

Yiftachel celebrates the Israeli Supreme Court verdict to send
Bedouin claims to arbitration over the District Court's rejection of
these claims. Yiftachel is called an "expert" by the Left despite
being
dismissed as a charlatan by the District Court Judge,

Prof.
Oren Yiftah'el of Ben Gurion University, who had given an expert
testimony at the original hearing in the District Court, said : "
After years of enormous effort in research we obtained - through
archives, aerial photos and the testimonies of tribes people – solid
evidence backing the land rights of Bedouins in the northern Negev.
This is the first time that such materials are presented at the
Supreme Court. Though there is as yet no ruling, I hope that
presentation of these materials would in itself make it clear to the
judges that sixty years of Bedouin dispossession in general - and
the Ukbis' dispossession in particular – were based on a judicial
and historical falsehood. A conciliation process might lead to a
reasonable outcome, and we will continue as much as possible to help
the Bedouins assert their rights."

The Committee of University Heads in Israel announced on Tuesday the
establishment of a forum to counter future academic boycotts against
Israel.
…
"An academic boycott is an unacceptable and dangerous process
contrary to the spirit of research, undermining its foundations.
This is an increasingly growing phenomenon with one aim - attacking
the state of Israel and the research performed within its borders,"
said Prof. Menahem Ben Sasson, president of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and chairman of the Committee of University Heads in
Israel on Tuesday.
…
To date, academic boycotts have surfaced primarily in the humanities
disciplines, though there remains great concern among Israeli
universities and officials that the phenomenon will spread to
encompass the sciences.

Leftists at a Conference hosted at Tel Aviv University denounce the
wine industry in Judea and Samaria as "winewashing."

Third, the topics today were all treated in a negative critical
manner, even the upbeat wine presentation. I may be slightly
subjective but as an academic researcher myself there are positive
stories to be researched: educational achievements, absorption
successes, industry, agriculture, science, social welfare, child
psychology, medical services, religious creativity, music, drama,
literature (someone did try to point this out while others were
surprised) and so much more. Does all that have to be framed as a
colonialization act, a crime? The workshop which included various
disciplines was seemingly one-dimensionally political and took
for-granted that Jewish communities in the areas administered by
Israel since 1967 are a 'crime', an illicit or illegal act.

The rationale for organizing this research workshop is to explore
less conventional approaches and angles that go beyond the immediate
politico-diplomatic dynamics and impact of Israel's settlement
policy. The underlying assumption is that the settlements'
enterprise is not an exceptional phenomenon contradictory to other
trends in Israeli society, but is a historical process that was
shaped by and related to other long-term processes.
…David Newman, Ben Gurion University,
Settlement as
Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization

Apparently, defending Israel from hate-speech is now a crime
punishable by silence on American campuses. Israeli academics give
their support in stifling criticism of anti-Israel activity at San
Francisco State University. The signed below dismiss the
condemnation of
terror-funded delegitimization of Israel as 'propaganda,' and by
some twisted logic, agree that combating the "occupation" will also
protect Jews and Israelis from racism and prejudice.

We, the undersigned members of Jewish communities, are writing to
express our outrage at Tammi Rossman-Benjamin's vicious and baseless
attacks on Professor Rabab Abdulhadi and the Arab and Muslim
Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED).

Rossman-Benjamin, who has a history of attacking faculty and
students who are critical of Israel, claims that actions by
Abdulhadi, such as leading a delegation to Palestine that
highlighted the plain reality of Israeli occupation and
settler-colonialism, have been "compromising the campus climate for
Jewish and Israeli students at SFSU."

Abdulhadi supports and teaches about movements for justice and
histories of oppressed peoples, including work that challenges
anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism as well as the occupation of
Palestine. As such, Abdulhadi's teaching, scholarship and public
advocacy directly contribute to combatting racism and prejudice
against all peoples, including Jews. Suggesting that such work
creates an unsafe atmosphere for Jewish students is simply
propaganda…

Not only are these accusations of misconduct completely unfounded,
but these attacks are a reflection of politically motivated, false
charges of antisemitism targeting Palestinian and Arab faculty and
students around the country… By characterizing protected political
speech as antisemitism they cheapen and weaken crucial civil rights
protections. This is but one example of the outrageous law-fare
being used to target Palestinian students and professors and their
supporters.
…
As Jewish people well-versed in the history of antisemitism that is
backed with state power, we reject Ms. Benjamin's manipulation of
our history… Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA and similar organizations
do not speak for Jews when they irresponsibly slander Palestinian
students and faculty.

University
of Haifa - Anti-Israel Extremists
Micah Leshem and
Avraham Oz rally to show solidarity with anti-Semite Norman
Finkelstein

Prof
Avraham Oz of Haifa University writes:

You may have heard that US academic Norman Finkelstein was detained
a couple of days ago by the Israeli authorities at the airport upon
coming to visit the occupied territories and sent back home. Now
granted that Finkelstein is a controversial figure in academe: the
reason for his detention and expelling from the country is based on
his opinions, as expressed in his books and articles. So much for an
academic establishment which made a loud worldwide noise when the
University of Haifa was boycotted by a union of academic teachers:
no whisper was raised by members of academia in Israel to protest
the case of detaining a fellow academic for his opinions, radical as
they might be.
…from
Micah Leshem:

The well oiled anti-academic boycott machine of the University of
Haifa has swung into action to fight for the Academic Freedom of Dr.
Norman Finkelstein, an American Scholar with views critical of the
Israeli Establishment.
…
From Professor Steven Plaut

Finkelstein, described incorrectly in the news story as an
"academic," something he is not and never has been, is a Neo-Nazi
widely regarded as a Holocaust Denier (including by the
Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center), who was
fired by DePaul university last summer because he has no academic
credentials at all and has yet to publish an academic paper. While
making a career out of mocking and denouncing Holocaust survivors as
frauds, hoaxsters, and thieves, Finkelstein has spent most of his
time since being fired by DePaul in promoting Hizbollah terror.

It is of course well in charatecter for the University of Haifa's
own pseudo-academic anti-Zionists to rally on behalf of a Neo-Nazi
and terrorist agent… These people believe that "freedom of speech"
should always be defended only for those endeavoring to orchestrate
a second Holocaust of Jews, but not for anyone else.

Perhaps the Israeli authorities should deny entry into Israel not
only to people like Finkelstein but also to those Israeli
"academics" who serve as apologists for Neo-Nazis and for
Islamofascist terrorists?

Among
the leading figures endorsing Hanin's celebration of the kidnappings
has been Orit Kamir. Her endorsement of Hanin Zoabi appears in
Hebrew
here. She proclaims that Zoabi not only has the right to support
the kidnappings but Kamir explicitly says she agrees with Zoabi. Who
exactly is Kamir? Her story states volumes about the collapse of
academic standards in Israel.

Kamir is a radical feminist "academic" who made headlines a few
years back when she was denied tenure at the law school of the
Hebrew University… But in 2001 she was turned down for promotion and
tenure due to a lack of serious bona fide academic publications.

Kamir decided to turn herself into a feminist martyr and started
harassing the University in court. She filed a discrimination suit
in an Israel labor court… After dragging along for two years, the
labor court proposed a compromise, under which Kamir could continue
working at the Hebrew University but without tenure, for a period of
6 years. The Hebrew University administration caved and signed. She
was allowed to stay on in one of the worst incidents of affirmative
action in Israeli academia.
…
Kamir is the new defender of Hanin Zoabi and the rights of
terrorists to kidnap Jewish children.

As an 'enlightened' 'intellectual' Illouz dismisses 'ahavat Israel'
(love of Israel) as collective narcissism and embraces
'universality' as her new religion. Illouz deconstructs 'ahavat
Israel' into three forms: the Israel Lobby in the US Congress; the
institutionalization of Holocaust remembrance; and Zionism.

Illouz feels compelled to tell the hard "truth" about the "evils" of
Zionism, and complains about the distain to 'criticism.' However,
Illouz surprisingly reaches the conclusion that there is a limit to
criticism, beyond which the quibbler places him/herself outside the
group. Only to conclude that the Arab plight trumps Jewish 'ahavat
Israel' in a deplorable about-face.

Given
that many of the members of that Jewish community do not profess
strict religious dogma (and are thus dissimilar from the Muslims who
issue fatwas against their intellectuals), this raises a puzzle. Why
have moderately religious Jewish communities become so reluctant to
perform what has characterized the ordinary task of intellectuals
since Socrates: namely, to criticize and question the assumptions of
their group in the name of universals? Why has it become so palpably
difficult to criticize Israel or Jewish communities…

Ahavat Israel is a form of solidarity, but slightly differs from it.
For one, it is an explicitly formulated injunction to love one's
group, whereas ordinary solidarity is invisibly embedded in social
relations. The Talmudic sage Rabbi Akiva made the injunction of
loving one's neighbor into a rule, and his interpreters (Hazal, the
sages) interpreted that rule as a commandment to love the close
neighbor, the Jew. That interpretation became institutionalized in
the 12th century by Maimonides' Mishneh Torah… I would call ahavat
Israel a form of hyper-solidarity, an imperative that was all the
more moral in that it invited one to consciously, actively love
one's group and to protect it from self-destructive divisiveness and
the threats of others.

… I would argue that the imperative of ahavat Israel intensified in
the period after World War II by way of three major institutions:
the structure of American politics; the memorialization of the
Holocaust; and Zionism.
…
The Israel lobby institutionalized ahavat Israel in the space of
American politics. Once it became institutionalized, it became a
powerful, invisible, unspoken assumption of organized
American-Jewish politics.
…
The second element that played an enormous role in the consolidation
of Jewish solidarity in conditions of modernity was the
institutionalization of the memory of the Holocaust… Such political
recognition of liberal societies resonated with changes within
Jewish communities after World War II, who reorganized their
identity around non-religious values.

The memory of the Shoah became a source of secular identity for
Jews, and was accentuated by the universalization of the Holocaust
by liberal societies… Thus, the collective memory of the Shoah
generated solidarity by becoming a form of, or a part of, Jewish
identity.
…
The third and final element that turned solidarity into the prime
emotional and political motif of world Jewish communities was
Zionism itself. As a nationalist ideology, Zionism became somewhat
anomalous: Instead of ending with the creation of the state, it only
gained in strength and scope. In fact, it became an ongoing project
of identification, membership and belonging for Jews around the
world, both inside and outside Israel.
…
Critique in the Jewish world must either constantly provide proofs
of love or must face accusations of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism,
various forms of ostracism, black lists, media watch agencies,
organizations such as Im Tirtzu monitoring course curricula and
universities, philanthropic blackmail, etc.
…
Some, like U.S. philosopher Michael Walzer, would argue that it is
the responsibility of the critic to be heard in such a way as to
remain inside the group. The best critics, Walzer claims, are those
who speak in a tone that feels close and familiar to the group he
criticizes; the best critics rebuke their fellows in the name of the
values their group holds dear…
…
If the contemporary Jewish intellectual has an urgent task, then, it
is to unveil the conditions under which Jewish solidarity should or
should not be accepted, debunked or embraced. In the face of the
ongoing, unrelenting injustices toward Palestinians and Arabs living
in Israel, his/her moral duty is to let go, achingly, of that
solidarity.

Palestinian Media Watch reports on the 'Watan'
Student Movement, a self-claimed "Trojan horse" at Hebrew U, that
sees all of Israel as occupied territories. Hebrew U officials grant
access to 'Watan' for an event praising terrorist and suicide
bombers who then proceeded to claim to have "reclaimed occupied
territories in Jerusalem."

Official Palestinian
Authority TV lauded Israeli Arabs of the student movement Watan
("Homeland") for a festival they held in the amphitheater at Hebrew
University last month. PA TV reported that "songs dedicated to the prisoners and the
Martyrs were sung," and described the event on the Hebrew University
campus as "reclaiming occupied territories in Jerusalem." [Official
PA TV, May 23, 2014]
…
PA TV reported that the Arab participants chanted "the slogan: 'The
amphitheater is ours.'" The PA TV reporter added that "in fact it
[the amphitheater] was theirs. They restored the Arab character of
the land on which Hebrew
University was built, even if only for one day."
…
In 2011, a member of the same Watan
(Homeland) Arab student movement at Hebrew University called the
Arab student organization a "cultural Trojan horse":

"TheWatanmovement was founded five years ago within the walls of
Hebrew University, within the walls of anIsraeli
institution, and has proven the theory of the 'cultural Trojan
horse.' It has proven that it can establish Palestinian identity
within Israeli institutions." [Official PA TV, Nov. 25, 2011]

Later that year, at a demonstration organized
by the Watan movement against an Israeli "Prawer Plan" for
resettling several Bedouin communities in the Negev Desert, the same
student also denied Israel's existence, referring to the Negev,
Nazareth and "the north" as "Palestine":

"We and our people in the Negev [are] one... We need
to make our voice heard on all levels, across the world, here at the University, in the
Negev and in Nazareth, in
the north, everywhere in
Palestine, in order to
emphasize that we are one arm, and that Palestine is one." [Official
PA TV, Dec. 12, 2011]

The Palestinians aspire to have an independent state in the 1967
borders, with Arab Jerusalem as its capital and a substantial return
of refugees to Israel. The Israelis wish to retain the Jewish
character of Israel, being the only Jewish state in the world. Both
sides wish to enjoy life of tranquillity and in security, free of
violence and terror. Both sides need to make painful concessions and
reach a compromise. Both parties should explicitly accept UN
Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and 1397 and then begin their
full implementation. The endgame will be based on the following
parameters:
…Capital – Each state is free to choose its own
capital; West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, East Jerusalem as
the capital of Palestine.
…Prisoners – As an act of good will, part of the
trust-building process, Israel will release a number of agreed upon
prisoners. With time, as trust will grow between the two sides, all
security prisoners will return home.

Refugees and their right of return – This is a major
concern for both Palestine and Israel. For Palestinians, this issue
is about their history, justice and fairness. For Israelis, this is
a debated issue, where many Israelis are unwilling to claim
responsibility for the Palestinian tragedy and most Israelis object
to the right of return as this would mean the end of the Jewish
State.

What needs to be done is to identify the population, establish
the numbers, and after mapping the refugee population conduct a
survey among them that would include the following options:

Return to Israel;

Return to the West Bank;

Return to the Gaza Strip;

Emigrate to third countries that would
commit to absorbing a certain quota (appeal will be made to
countries that receive immigration on a regular basis to participate
in this settlement effort);

Remain where they are.

The 1948 Palestinian refugees will be able to settle in
Palestine. The rest of the world will be able to set immigration
quotas for absorbing Palestinians who apply for settlement in their
designated choice of country. Unification of families should be
allowed in Israel on a limited quota scale annually. But massive
refugee return to Israel will not be allowed. In addition, an
international tribunal of reputable historians and international
lawyers, including equal representatives of Israel and Palestine,
will determine the level of monetary compensation. If needed, Israel
and Palestine may establish an international relief fund to which
humanitarian countries that wish to see the end of the conflict can
contribute. Israel, Europe, the Muslim World, North America and
other countries of good will (the Geneva Accord mentions Japan; we
may add China, Australia and Brazil) would be able to secure the
required funding. The United Nations and the World Bank may also be
approached to offer assistance.
…International commerce – Israel and Palestine will be free to
conduct international commerce as they see fit. In order to develop
trust between the two parties, some level of transparency about logs
of commerce will be agreed and memorandums of understanding will be
signed by the two parties.

University of
Washington - Assaf Oron (Dept
of Statistics) Obsessed with Presenting Israel as an Economic
"Addict" to "Occupation"

Oron cooks the
books to "prove" that the "Occupation" is the source of Israel's
economic growth. Making Carl Marx proud, Oron blames Israel's
sustained economic growth upon the policies of "occupation" and
exploitation of cheap Arab labor and rejects the effects of
abandoning over 30 years of wasteful social practices and embracing
capitalistic policies.

Bibi
has presented Israel's recovery from the 2001-2003 crisis as
evidence of his economic genius, and as his claim togravitasin the eyes of Israel's socio-economic elites, who had up
until then seen him as a superficial hack. Yet, here comes the head
of the central bank's research department, who states in a formal
report that in reality, Israel's economy mostly rode on George W.
Bush's coattails to exit the crisis.
…
Emerging from the mid-1970s crisis and the late-1980s crisis
required that Israel pay a political price. On the first occasion,
it was returning the Sinai and (falsely) committing to Palestinian
autonomy. On the second occasion the price was engaging in direct
negotiations with the Palestinians, leading to some limited
autonomy. But the
exit from the 2001-2003 crisis was granted to us by the George W.
Bush administration free of charge, as part of his crusade to
reshape the Middle East, and of his generally superb skills in
running things.

This unbelievable
(and highly irresponsible) politico-economic gift from Bush has
caused most Israelis to enter a mental bubble of smugness and
disengagement from reality. It is this bubble that explains much of
Israel's ridiculous military adventurism since the mid-2000s. It is
this bubble that allows Bibi to boast of"saving
Israel's economy"via some neoliberal magic potion. And it is this bubble, in
which economists like Flug and Strawczynski attempt to
"investigate," supposedly, what causes Israel's growth and recession
cycles –all the
while completely ignoring the occupation regime that actually
underlies most of them.

If you are
still confused as to what this little post's message is:

Post-1967,
Israel's economy became an occupation economy first and foremost.
Setting up the occupation regime gave us our biggest economic growth
spurt. Since then, the occupation's woes have given us our worst
crises.

Yes, there
is also Israeli hi-tech, and there is also macro-economic policy.
But studying Israel's macro-economy without explicitly entering the
occupation regime into the picture, is – my apologies if this
offends anyone – tantamount to economic malpractice.

On an overall
calculation, my guess is that Israel is still somewhat ahead,
economically, on the cumulative gains and losses from its occupation
gamble. This is mostly at the expense of Palestinians, of course,
but also increasingly at the expense of the U.S., the EU and others
who have poured increasing amounts of money and effort to keep the
situation in Israel-Palestine from falling completely off a cliff.
That inflow of outside money has helped us retain many of the
occupation's benefits… Yet, the occupation's annual balance is
probably negative nowadays, and getting worse, on average, every
year.

So why can't we give it up?
Besides the well-known political and social reasons (fear of
Palestinians in general and terror in particular, the settler
Right's chokehold on national politics, plain inertia), there is
also the memory of the original "high" of 1967-1973. That initial
boom still lives in too many Israeli hearts and minds, equating the
occupation and "greater Israel" with a sense of prosperity. That
explains our collective behavior patterns, such as,

• Pledging to give up the
occupation again and again, yet not following up, and very often not
even doing anything that can realistically lead to its end;

• Denying or suppressing
the occupation's existence, its nature or the magnitude of its
impact upon Israeli life;

Ben Gurion University -
Duplicitous Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Finds New
Extremes: Silence is Paramount to Active Participation in the
"occupation"

Gordon formulates a conspiracy theory in which the cult of silence
by non-Far-Leftist Academics and the Academic Institutions is proof
of "colluding" with the "occupation." Bragging under the guise of
'critical thinking,' Gordon admits to have been undermining Israeli
sovereignty for over 25 years.

In
2006, I was among 25 professors from five Israeli universities who
filed a petition with the High Court of Justice in Israel requesting
that the court put a stop to the transformation of a small college,
located in the occupied West Bank, into a university. We submitted
the petition because we were appalled by the idea that the Israeli
government would use academe to advance its colonial project in the
Palestinian territories.
…
Israeli universities have long acted as if they were mere
bystanders, simply watching the demolition but not participating in
it. Sitting in classes on Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus,
studying philosophy in the midst of the first Palestinian uprising,
in the late 1980s, we would often hear shots and see the clouds of
tear gas rising from the valley below as the Israeli military
quelled Palestinian protests in Arab East Jerusalem.
…
And yet the silence of Israeli universities was deafening. Yes, some
professors did organize petitions and solidarity visits to the West
Bank. But as an institution, not one university published a
statement supporting its colleagues across the Green Line, in
Palestinian territories.
…
Wittingly or unwittingly, Israeli universities play a central role
in sustaining the occupation. They are the face of Israel's
democracy that serves to hide its dark colonial side. One could call
it "university washing."

Ariel University is perhaps an extreme case, since it was founded by
military decree and is intended to play an active role in the
suppression of another people. But the general failure of the
Israeli academy to stand by Palestinian universities and against the
occupation is no less colossal.

Goldberg promotes
the 'Nakba' as the equivalent of the Holocaust in an alarming trend
that starts once he joined the semi-Marxist Van Leer Institute.

Goldberg's PhD dissertation
concentrated on diary writing by victims during the Holocaust. But
since joining Van Leer he has devoted much of his energies and
attention to the idea that Israel should give "equal recognition" to
the "Nakba," the supposed "catastrophe" that befell Arabs when they
failed in their attempt in 1948-9 to conduct genocidal ethnic
cleansing of Jews in Israel.

"Nakba" today sums up the Palestinian
narrative about the "tragedy" of the founding of Israel. Goldberg
writes widely about the need to convert Israel into a Rwanda-style
bi-national state. Goldberg is
involved with Zochrot ("Remembering"), an ultra-anti-Israel
leftist NGO seeking to removing Jewish names from towns and villages
in Israel and "restoring" their Arab identities. It is
basically an Erase-Israel group. In other words, Zochrot seeks
to undermine Jewish sovereignty and promote the idea of the Nakba,
as well as the "right of return" of Palestinian "refugees" to
Israel, destroying it demographically from within…
He today insists it is important to give
equal footing to Arab "suffering" and to the "narrative" that
asserts they underwent a catastrophe because
Israel won the war against it in 1948-9. Goldberg's writings
constantly compare the Holocaust with the "Nakba."

"This article
develops a theoretical framework for shared and inclusive Jewish and
Palestinian deliberation on the memories of the Holocaust and the
Nakba. It argues that a joint Arab-Jewish public deliberation on the
traumatic memories of these two events is not only possible, however
challenging and disruptive it may be, but also fundamental for
producing an egalitarian and inclusive ethics of bi-nationalism in
Israel/Palestine… The figure of the
refugee, constitutive of Palestinian and Jewish histories and
identities, we suggest, serves as a herald of this binational and
disruptive ethics. We conclude that 'empathic unsettlement' also has
a productive and transformative potential which gives further
(however partial and initial) meaning, shape and content to the
ethics and democratic politics of bi-nationalism heralded by the
refugee."

Peled-Elhanan levels these charges in an attempt to undermine the
'Zionist national narrative' at a public church function in NYC.

Nevertheless, both [Nurit Peled-Elhanan and Miko Peled] have the
same goal: to expose, challenge and overcome the Zionist national
narrative.
…
The "racist discourse" in Israeli textbooks, Peled-Elhanan
concluded, "infects students with ideology" and "prepares them for
one thing only: to be good soldiers."

Bar-Tal sees the Israeli
education system as a "continuous and constant process of
indoctrination" of Israeli school
children. Despairing from recent polls, Bar-Tal hysterically, but
correctly, reaches the conclusion that his far-leftist
misconceptions will never again achieve an Israeli majority. This "moral
deterioration" of Israeli Society under the influence of "occuparthied,"
prompts him to undermine Israeli
sovereignty and ask the world to intervene in Israeli internal
affairs. The response of Israeli Democracy to protect itself from
the anti-democratic attacks on Israeli Society perpetrated by the
Far-Left has Bar-Tal slinging ludicrous charges of a racist society
and a non-democratic, immoral regime. Bar-Tal greatly inflates the
numbers of his far-leftist followers to the hundreds of thousands.
However, millions of Israelis know the leftilliterate Bar-Tal is wrong.

I write this letter with great concern for the future of my
society and the State of Israel with the belief that the views
presented here reflect the opinions of at least several
hundred-thousand Jews living in Israel, who oppose the positions and
the policies of the Israeli government and believe that these
positions and policies are leading the country to disaster. This
letter expresses my deep worry and conviction that Israel needs to
be saved from the road chosen by the majority. Just because views
are possessed by a majority does not mean that these views—-and the
actions that result from them—-are right, moral or just.
…
Israeli Jews, who already practice occupartheid (defined as
discrimination between populations on the basis of ethnic origin as
a result of a lasting occupation that denies political and economic
rights from the occupied population) will not be able to maintain
this system forever and will eventually face a dilemma in which they
will have to choose between two very different options: to be a
democracy with a clear Jewish majority or to be a pariah, isolated
state enacting formally a type of apartheid.
…
In this emergent situation it is imperative that none of
us—-Jews, Palestinians, and other citizens of the world—-stand by
passively!! Everyone must act to move the peace process back onto
its tracks. This is not only a moral command: Stopping the present
abysmal situation is deeply in the interest of both societies and
the international community.
…
There is no doubt that the glorified victory of the 1967 war was the
turning point in the societal consciousness of the Jewish people, a
great majority of whom viewed the occupation as liberation and
redemption for the nation. This view is still deeply entrenched in
the dominant ethos, if we take into consideration that the Israeli
Jewish population goes through continuous and constant process of
indoctrination through socialization in schools, in the army, and
even in media, indicating that the area between the Mediterranean
Sea and the Jordan River is the exclusive homeland of the Jews.
…
In addition while most of the countries of the world cherish
democracy as the preferable political system and Israel
self-proclaims itself as one of the strongest democracy, the reality
is different. Israel is steadily moving away from the boundaries of
democracy. This way finds expression in the spate of bills that seek
to limit criticism of the government and the State, to restrict
freedom of speech, to legalize illegal polices, to expand Jewish
nature of the state over the democratic counterpart and to harm the
Arab minority. Racist, nationalistic and antidemocratic rhetoric and
acts have become part of the normative life of the society.

Reminiscing about her leftist indoctrination at summer camp,
Scheindlin describes how "Israeli-ness" should become a Cana'anite
style melting pot of all its citizens. After more than a century of
building the land, the Zionist interaction with the local Arabs has
not brought the naysayers any closer to agreeing to share the
Zionist Dream. However, Zionism has had to evolve and defend itself
from baseless charges of racism and being hijacked by the far-left,
such as Scheindlin, who would destroy the Jewish State of Israel and
replace it with a Rwandan-style state of all of its citizens.

But
Israel, by contrast, tries to formally define itself as Jewish.
Instead of allowing "Israeli-ness" to develop into a blend of its
(current) majority, fusing with its minorities like in France or
America, Israel would like to narrow "Israeli" identity to the
Jewish aspect – through a
Basic Law proposal, an
amendment to the Citizenship Law, Right of Return and draft
laws. Maybe the current leadership isn't interested in preserving
the Jewish numeric majority, as witnessed by
creeping annexation policies, so it hopes to anchor the
character of the state through legislation. There are also unwritten
codes, such as favoring army service for employment, or unequal
resource distribution, to divide the favored from the marginalized.

Inside this first inner demarcation, there is yet another, even
narrower, boundary being drawn: Zionism.

In over a century of the modern usage, the term has never meant one
thing alone. Its myriad tributaries merged and parted like the
waters of the world's great rivers. Like a political party in
Israel.

But lately, Zionism has come to refer not to the many ways of
building Israel, but to a litmus test. The test is your label: you
are "Zionist" – no matter what you mean by that – or else you are
post-, anti-, non-Zionist.
…
There's a second current meaning. For Palestinians, Zionism has
equaled racism from the
famous UN resolution onward – and before. For them Zionism is
both the occupation from 1967 and their ongoing 65-year-old
stateless wandering that began in 1948 (even the Jews wandered in
Sinai for only 40 years). In the name of Zionism, Palestinians'
collective historic trauma was denied (understandably making their
demand for recognition of their experiences more vociferous). To
this day, they live as people in bondage, subject to military rule
and stunted political growth.
…
It is a burden.

Poor Carlo Strenger cries in his beer that he and his fellow
leftists are just poorly understood. Its not that they don't care
about Israel, however, they care for the Arabs even more. Strenger
banks the future security of Israel within the Liberal Vision of
"Universal Morality."

But along with the blame game between Israel and the
Palestinians, another blame game has been going on, in which
Israel's right-wingers blame liberals for Israel's isolation. When
you read Israel's right-wingers, you might think that Israeli
liberals would rejoice in boycott. We are being accused of
bad-mouthing Israel, of giving Israel's enemies ammunition and
arguments that can be used by the BDS movement.

I want to ask these right-wingers a simple question. Has it ever
crossed your minds that when you call us names like "anti-Israeli"
or "self-hating Jews", you are missing the most obvious and simple
point? Do you really think that Israeli liberals are interested in
Israel's being ostracized?
…
It is time that you realize that we Israeli liberals care about
Israel's interests exactly as much as you do. Do not lecture us that
we are unrealistic about the dangers facing Israel and that we are
naïve…
…
And yet we think that the occupation endangers Israel more than any
external enemy. The difference between Israel's right-wingers and
Israeli liberals is not one of naïveté vs. realism. Your vision of
Israel is based on stones and bigotry and the myth that Israel
doesn't need the West's friendship. Ours is based on universal
morality, the firm belief that humans matter more than stones, and
on the realization that Israel's long-term survival depends on a
close relationship with the free world based on common values.

Bar'el encourages Obama and the International Community to force
Israel into recognizing an Arab State beyond the Green Line and
supplies a blueprint for undermining Israeli interests. Does
advocating secession of territory from under Israeli sovereignty
constitute Treason?

For
example, there is no logical explanation for the continued refusal
by the United States to recognize an independent Palestinian state
that will receive recognized international status and benefit from
the rights of a country under occupation.

The old argument to the effect that recognition of a Palestinian
state is a matter for an agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians is no longer valid.
…
When Hamas declares itself a political party, even if it doesn't
recognize Israel, no country, including the United States, will be
able to refrain from recognizing the unified Palestinian government.
Such a government would not find it difficult to bring about the
reopening of the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian side, to receive
financial support from Arab countries, to join all the international
conventions, and to demand recognition of its territory within the
1967 borders.

That is the little justice that the international community can
grant the Palestinians, after proving itself incapable of forcing
Israel to desist from the occupation or at least halting the
continued Israeli invasion of Palestinian territory.

… But there is no reason why [the United States] shouldn't nurture
the Palestinian president and his government, invite him to meetings
in the White House, send money for the development of civil
services, prevent Israel from imposing economic sanctions against
Palestine, and declare Palestine an ally.

The European Union, which until now has watched the negotiations as
a passive observer, also has a vital role. It can offer the
Palestinian state the status of a satellite state, foster formal
commercial ties, encourage investors and manufacturers to operate on
the West Bank and in Gaza and condition the extent of cooperation
with Israel on the extent of Israeli restrictions against the
Palestinian state…

Although a flourishing economy and international support will not
solve the territorial dispute, recognition of the Palestinian state
would present Israel with a real dilemma. Is it a part of the
international community or will it become fixed in the world's
consciousness as an unworthy country?

Well, Herr
Zimmermann is back in the news this week. He is all
upset. What is he upset over? It seems that the Maccabi Tel Aviv
basketball team won the European tournament and Zimmermann took this
as a personal affront to his anti-Zionism.
…
But what upset Herr Zimmermann is that the outpouring
of celebration interfered with the plans of the Radical Ultra-Left
to convince Israelis they are a pack of racist Untermenschen who
need to mourn their very existence.

Zimmermann claims to have some knowledge of sports (unlike me) and
insists that the victory of the Tel Aviv team actually proves that
Zionism is a failure. He proclaimed, "The vision was for Zionism to
create Jews who would excel in sports. But the fact that the
basketball team recruits mercenaries from America to do the work is
fraud and pretense. It is the very opposite of the Zionist vision."

Neve Gordon (Ben Gurion University)
and Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Hebrew University) Participate in a
Palestinian Solidarity Conference with the Aim of Delegitimizing the
Jewish and Democratic State of Israel

Gordon levels charges of apartheid and segregation against the
State. He denies that Israel is a democracy. Gordon labels Israeli
schoolchildren racists due to their [justified] apprehension of Arab
terrorists. Gordon, worried of the 'horrors' his children would
suffer if they came into contact with the 'racist' Israeli pupils,
founded a bilingual post-Zionist school and kindergarten in which
even 4 year-olds are brain-washed into observing the 'Nakba.'

With Nurit Peled-Elhanan's consent, an interview was screened
in which she whines about 'the Arab image' and maps of 'Greater
Israel' that are presented in Israeli text books. Peled also
complains about the infrequent use of the word "Palestinian" [an
usurped word for a made up people] to describe Arabs.

Where Neve Gordon mainly wants to talk about the situation in
Israel itself. In Israel we have to deal with segregation and
apartheid. According to Neve Gordon is the Israeli state built on a
hyper-ethnic nationalism. For Israel, it is important to maintain.
Majority of the Jewish ethnic group We could say that Israel is an
ethnocracy rather than a democracy. Ethnic identity is vital for
Israel, therefore the population geographically spread over the
area. The intention is to judaizing the area.
…
The population of Israel, consisting of Jewish Israelis and
Palestinian Israelis (Israel calls them Arab Israelis), is
ethnically separated. There are no Palestinians living in Jewish
neighborhoods or neighborhoods. They are therefore segregated
neighborhoods.…
Of course this also segregation in schools.
…
This racist attitude is not accidental, according to Gordon that is
reinforced by the fact that Israeli and Palestinian young people
simply have no contact with each other. They do not meet, they do
not play with each other; and so the idea of the "dangerous other"
has been maintained. Jewish children are afraid of the Palestinians,
and therefore they are racists.
…
Seen in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the national
histories are very important, both are stories told in school. The
moment when the Jews 'Independence Day' Israel commemorate to
the Palestinians after all, the anniversary of the Nakba (the
catastrophe - the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948). It is
not easy to bring children from 4 years old this on. Teachers tackle
the very pragmatically. It starts on an emotional level, the
Independence they tell the children that with independence comes
responsibility. Responsibility for a small child means itself can
attract clothes. For the story of the Nakba, they teach the children
the basic concept of losing your home, losing your friends and
neighbors, your pets and toys lose. The older the children are, the
more dimensions are added to the story. A moment of silence was held
for the Nakba and the Holocaust. In this way, a situation is created
in which there can be taken into account with the other, and the
other one is different.

…

During the conference was being watched a movie where Nurit Peled
was interviewed about her research on Israeli textbooks…
…
Maps of Israel showing the textbooks becoming the 'Greater
Israel', where the Palestinian territories and Israel form a
whole. They show 'the land of Israel, "as opposed to" the
State of Israel, "resulting in generations of Israelis who do
not know where the boundaries of their own country. On any map, the
Green Line stated.
…
On refugees is said that it was allowed to remain, they do not
understand why they left them. Palestinians are presented as curious
people, people who want to give the public any good pieces of land,
to build playgrounds and so on. The word Palestinians is used very
rarely, if ever, instead they use the word Arabs, so as to refer to
the other Arab countries where Palestinians can go to.

But unless Israelis know about and recognize the crimes we
committed in 1948, and their ongoing significance in Palestinian
society, and unless Palestinians recognize the ongoing significance
of the Holocaust in Jewish-Israeli society, there is no chance of a
true reconciliation between these two peoples.
…
To me, the Holocaust has a degree of sanctity. Perhaps the
appropriate response to Abbas' remarks would be to recognize the
catastrophe of the Nakba, even though, in my view, these are two
events where comparative research actually proves how completely
they differed.

Racist, antidemocratic and, to my sorrow, even fascist
manifestations are common in Israel. The official policy of the
State of Israel in recent years explicitly contains fascist and
racist elements.

Tel Aviv University - 300 TAU
Students Make No Sense; Mourn the "Catastrophe" of Israel's Creation

The students mimic Memorial Day ceremonies and promote
"testimonies" of ethnic cleansing.

Some 300 students marked Nakba Day on Sunday with a demonstration
at Tel Aviv University. Arab students carried pictures of relatives
and read testimonies of Palestinians who were forced from their
homes and villages during Israel's War of Independence.
…
Louis was not concerned by the counter-protesters… "There is no
doubt that there are a number of narratives to what happened in '48.
That makes sense."

Occupation by its nature creates deep discrimination and enormous
disparities between the rights of the occupier and the occupied.
These don't relate only to the way the occupation shapes daily life,
or to the restrictions it places on freedom of movement, freedom of
expression and the legal remedies to which the occupied are
entitled. Occupation thwarts or delays the realization of national
aspirations for independence and sovereignty, but it doesn't conceal
them. Apartheid, in contrast, destroys the basis of equality between
citizens of the same state.
…
And this is why the left is mistaken – or more accurately, confused
– when it adopts apartheid as a greater danger than the occupation
itself. It's as if it were saying, "Give us an enlightened
occupation, and we could live with it just fine." This trend also
includes another interesting development, which holds that if we
can't end the occupation, we'll create a binational state in which
the government will be forced to grant the Palestinians equal
political and civil rights. This is paternalism. Did anyone ask the
Palestinians if they want a binational state? Have they already
given up their aspirations to become a free people in their own
land?

On May 7, the group ran an ad in the Israeli
media under the headline (in English and Hebrew): "John Kerry was
Right! Without a just two-state solution – Israel will become an
apartheid state." It is not clear where the funding comes for the ad
and it would not be surprising if it turns out to be from overseas
anti-Israel forces.

Among the signers/endorsers of the group
appearing on the ad are at least two faculty members from Ben Gurion
University: Dan Filc and Naomi Shir. Curiously, Goldblum's own name
does not appear on the list in the ad.

However, Goldblum signs his name to the ad
that appears on his Facebook page, along with the academics Menachem
Klein, Gabi Solomon, Zeev Sternhell, and Dan Tawfik.

In a manner fitting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Waismel-Manor
slanders Israeli Orthodox Jews as power-hungry, hawkish fanatics who
are unwilling to make peace and aim to change Israel's democratic
nature. Waismel-Manor greatly exaggerates the influence of the
Israeli religious community and whitewashes the Iranian Ayatollah
leadership. Waismel-Manor misleads his readers to believing that
Israel is a country of religious fanatics and Iran a country of
secular moderates, all the while preaching gloom and doom in his
support of BDS sanctions.

As
moderate Iranians and some of the country's leaders cautiously shift
toward pragmatism and the West, it seems that many Israelis are
moving away from these attitudes. In its 66 years, Israel has seen
its share of ideological shifts from dovish to hawkish. These were
natural fluctuations driven mainly by the country's security
situation and prospects for peace.

But the current shift is being accelerated by religion and
demography, and is therefore qualitatively different. While the
Orthodox Jewish parties are currently not part of the government,
together with Mr. Bennett's Jewish Home, a right-wing religious
party, they hold about 25 percent of seats in the Knesset. The
Orthodox parties aspire to transform Israel into a theocracy.
…
Israel's shift toward orthodoxy is not merely a religious one. Since
the vast majority of Orthodox Jews are also against any agreement
with the Palestinians, with each passing day, the chances of
reaching a peace deal diminish. Nor is time on the side of those who
want to keep seeing a democratic Israel.

If Israel continues the expansion of
settlements, and peace talks serve no purpose but the extension of
the status quo, the real existential threat to Israel will not be
Iran's nuclear program but rather a surging tide of economic
sanctions.
…
From academic boycotts to calls for divestment on American
university campuses to the unwillingness of more and more European
financial institutions to invest in or partner with Israeli
companies and banks that operate in the West Bank, the "B.D.S."
movement is gaining momentum. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
recently called B.D.S. advocates "classical anti-Semites in modern
garb."

Martin Sherman lambasts Yakobson over what amounts to Treason
for encouraging the creation of an Arab State within striking distance
of the main population centers and industrial zones with even the
most simple terror devices. Yacobson and
his colonialist cronies explain the refusal to acknowledge the
Jewish State as an Arab response to Israeli diktats instead of
demanding the non-semantic mutual recognition necessary to serve as
the basis for a peaceful co-existence. Yakobson would rather give in
to the irredentist Arab claims and grant the Arabs statehood without
securing an annulment of future claims than admit that the continued
Arab belligerence is a result of their commitment to a phased
conquest of Israel. Since Yakobson's ludicrous moonbat proposal has
no chance of ever finding an Israeli majority to implement it, he
resorts to anti-democratic measures which undermine Israeli
sovereignty.

Some such formula can be adopted in a peace
agreement. It will be reciprocal, and it won't sound like an Israeli dictat. It won't be open to the objection that by recognizing Israel
as a Jewish state, the Palestinians would have to renounce their
historical narrative and subscribe to the Israeli one; it is obvious
that by accepting such a wording, Israel will by no means be
adopting the Palestinian narrative. The term "Jewish state" itself
will probably not be there, but the substance of the Israeli demand
will have been met, on a reciprocal basis.
…
The real question is not whether the Palestinians are willing to
accept some semantic formula having to do with the Jewish state, but
whether they are ready to accept the Jewish state itself. This
question is raised in all its gravity by the Palestinian demand for
a "right of return" to Israel for the Palestinian refugees of 1948
and their descendants…
…
Israel can live without any semantic recognition of the Jewish
state, but not with this demand… Is the Palestinians' current
position their final word? The only way to put this to the test is
by submitting a peace plan that would offer the Palestinians a
viable state on the basis of the 1967 lines, with a right of return
to the Palestinian state, but not to Israel. Because the present
Israeli government will not produce such a plan, the United States
should.

Despite a 'non-equal' clause, Goldberg
completes the ultimate hijacking of the Holocaust by the Arabs.
Usurping 2000 years of Jewish stateless victimhood, Goldberg
elevates the Arab refugees and "statelessness" through linguistic
subversion to create an empathic, moral equation between the two
events. Goldberg blames Israel with ethnic cleansing and promotes a
delusional vague feel-good postnational state of some kind.

Goldberg also absolves Arab participation in
the Holocaust. Strange for a Holocaust scholar, Goldberg blindly
ignores the documented activities of Al-Husseini, the religious and
political leader of the Mandate Arabs, in shaping the events of the
Holocaust: denying Jewish Immigration from German Occupied Europe;
recruiting Muslims to serve the Nazi cause; and perhaps even the
suggestion of the Final Solution itself.

Our proposed binationalism, denoted by 'empathic unsettlement',
allows for more ontological stability than Butler's excessive
individualistic hybridity and radical alterity. Otherwise stated,
our binationalism endorses a thin form of communitarianism that
acknowledges the role ethnicity and nationalism play in
Israel/Palestine. More precisely, our account recognizes the right
to national self-determination of both national groups while
insisting that this right ought not be realised in the form of an
exclusive ethnic state.
…
Similarly, our attempt in this article has been to suggest a way to
jointly think and deliberate on the two traumatic memories of the
Holocaust and the Nakba without conflating them but also without
completely separating them as if they have nothing to do with one
another.

The Discussion of
Legitimate Limits to Abuse of Freedom of Speech by Far-Leftists
Reaches the Public Sphere

The abuse of individual rights and personal freedoms by the Far-Left
has prompted Martin Sherman to suggest enforcing existing laws, or
to draft new ones, to make "academics" criminally culpable when
advocating irresponsible policies for which the outcome is blatantly
detrimental to national security or the physical safety of its
citizens.

It has been a long accepted principle in the most democratic of
nations that the right to free speech is neither unconditional nor
unconstrained. This is especially true when such nations find
themselves in a state of belligerency.
…
It is this potential abuse of individual rights and freedoms that
may imperil collective freedoms and rights which comprises the major
thrust of the ensuing discussion…
…
The US legal system stipulates two related offenses, "reckless
endangerment" and "depraved indifference."

Without engaging in scholarly debate regarding the legalistic
differences between the two, it would be true to say, in informed
layman's terms, that the defining characteristic common to both is
that they each entails conduct, exhibiting a clear disregard for
foreseeable consequences of the act involved, which creates a
substantial risk of serious physical injury to others.
Significantly, the focus in these offenses is on the risk created by
such conduct, not the actual injuries resulting.
…
Yakobson's proposal to abandon Jews to alien sovereignty of course
comprises a grotesque inversion of Zionist ideals, which always
strove to achieve the opposite – bringing Jews to live under Jewish
sovereignty. His latest article takes this manifestly misguided
myopia even further.
…
Yakobson is proposing implementation of a policy that has failed
consistently and catastrophically for almost a quarter century,
incurring the murder and maiming of thousands upon thousands of his
countrymen.

But, because Israel's democratically elected government has not been
sufficiently submissive to Palestinian demands in adopting such a
perilous and imprudent policy, Yakobson suggests that it be promoted
(read "imposed") by the US administration – whose misunderstanding
and incompetence regarding the political realities in the
international system in general, and the Mideast in particular, have
been starkly apparent for at least a decade.

If this recommendation to have a disastrously disproven policy
imposed on his own government by an inept alien entity does not
constitute a clear and present danger to Israeli national security,
it's difficult to think what does.

The trenchant question that remains is: How long will we, as a
society, continue to tolerate, not only the articulation but the
proactive propagation of harebrained, hazardous hallucinations, no
matter how clearly detrimental to the national security of the state
and the physical safety of its citizens, before they are accorded
the public outrage and societal opprobrium they so richly deserve?

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ben Yehuda wishes to make room
for fictitious Arab claims of Genocide in 1948.

'When we compare the Holocaust to other
events, we not only abandon our posturing as the eternal victim but
even more importantly enter the stand as humans, as people required
to think, choose and make determinations. … When the Jew ceases to
be ONLY a Jew, becoming partly a Turk, partly an Arab and even
sometimes a Nazi, he himself as a Jew becomes a participant.
Moreover, many researchers have noted in recent years the
comparability between the traumas in a multi-cultural society, in
which there is also room for the Holocaust of the Jews, such as
comparing it with the Holocaust of black people in America and the
Holocaust of the Arabs in 1948. The proper role of the genocide of
the Jews is not to dismiss the Holocausts of other peoples but
rather to cope with the connections to those Holocausts…'

If you would like to let the heads of the Hebrew University know
what you think of all this, write to:

Hebrew University - The Colonialist Ideology of Zeev Sternhell
(Dept of Political Science) and the Extreme Left Exposed

Dror Eydar topples Zeev Sternhell's
flimsy
far-leftist argument against Arab recognition of the Jewish State by staking the Jewish claim to the land of
Israel based on moral, legal, historical and religious grounds.

The Palestinian's intransigence on Israel being a
Jewish state has to do with one of the core questions, a question
that parts in the Left have somehow ignored: Do the Jews, as a
national and ethnic group, have a claim to this land, based on
moral, legal, historical and religious grounds? At the very least,
do they have claim on the portion of the land that would be left to
us if Sternhell has his way?

As long as the Palestinians refuse to accept this
demand, the conflict will endure. Any deal that is not considered
final would merely be another step toward the implementation of the
Palestine Liberation Organization's phased plan to destroy Israel.
In other words, the delegitimization of the Jewish state would
continue even after it had withdrawn to its narrow borders.

Sternhell's friends will then attack Israel as
being an "apartheid" and a "racist" state. As far as they are
concerned, because a fifth of the population is non-Jewish, this
country is a binational state. It is just obvious. How outrageous it
is that the law books overtly favor the Jewish majority.
…
Just look at how Sternhell defines this agreement: "For Israel's
leaders, the word 'agreement' means unconditional Palestinian
surrender.... The Palestinians must accept their inferiority."
Unbelievable. Where did he get that from? Only a colonialist could
talk like that. Only a colonialist would view the agreement as a
deal where the locals accept their inferiority to the masters.
…Sternhell has realized that he is part of a minority. He wants Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renege on the pledges he made to his
voters, to disavow the very values he ran on and abort the historic
mission he has pursued…
…
Sternhell implies that Netanyahu should withdraw from the heart of
our homeland, just like de Gaulle withdrew from Algeria. But this is
like apples and oranges. Algeria was never French. As for the Land
of Israel, well -- it has been the land of the Jewish people since
time immemorial. Yes, Mr. Sternhell. This has been the home of your
people for ages. Could you believe it?

The petition, designed only for Israelis citizens, tries to pass off
the double standard applied to Israel as "not anti-Semitic."

We, Palestinians, Jews, citizens of Israel, join the Palestinian
call for a BDS campaign against Israel, inspired by the struggle of
South Africans against apartheid.1
We also call on others to do the same.
…
We are deeply concerned about the potentially irreversible damage
inflicted on Palestinians by Israel's brutal occupation, systematic
oppression of its Palestinian citizens and denial of the right of
return of Palestinian refugees. We have come to the conclusion that
these practices will end only when their cost for Israel- its elites
in particular- outweighs the benefits.

In light of attacks on BDS supporters, we emphasize that a critical
stance against the occupation and apartheid, including explicit BDS
actions taken by individuals and organizations, are not antisemitic
[sic]. On the contrary, only resistance of this kind as part of the
struggle for peace based on justice and equality will enable a
common future for Arabs, Jews and all inabitants [sic] in the
region.

Hebrew University - Marxist Anti-Democratic Zeev Sternhell
(Dept of Political Science) Believes that Arab Recognition of the
Jewish State of Israel is an Unreasonable Demand

Sternhell lays down an ultimatum to capitulate to Arab irredentist
claims or suffer the humanist brand of apartheid because, according
to Sternhell bizarre claim, Jews have occupied Israel since the
First Aliyah. Sternhell smears even the liberal left-wing Judicial
System as an "arm of Israeli rule." Since Sternhell's ridiculous and
absurd ultra-Leftist views will never be a majority position, he
calls upon the Western World to undermine Israeli sovereignty and
meddle in Israeli internal affairs.

The
demand that the Palestinians recognize a Jewish state is no
coincidence; it's not to be taken lightly. It's the way to demand
that the Palestinians admit their historic defeat and recognize the
Jews' exclusive ownership of the country.
…
In the eyes of the right, the Jewish people won a decisive victory
when they occupied the country in a process that began with the
First Aliyah — the immigration wave from 1882 to 1903 — and
continues to this day. Its two high points were the War of
Independence and the Six-Day War, both part of the sequence of
settlement. In that sense there is no difference between the
occupation of parts of the country before and after 1949, while the
Green Line has no significance except for being a temporary
cease-fire line.
…
Therefore, for Israel's leaders, the word "agreement" means
unconditional Palestinian surrender. For the Jews' exclusive right
to the land to be complete and recognized, the Palestinians must
accept their inferiority. This perception is anchored deep in the
Israeli consciousness and is shared by the right, the center and the
center-left, the towns in the country's outskirts and most residents
of Greater Tel Aviv, the Labor Party and Likud. They all reject the
principle of equal rights for the Arabs.
…
The road to South Africa has been paved and will not be blocked
until the Western world presents Israel with an unequivocal choice:
Stop the annexation and dismantle most of the colonies and the
settler state, or be an outcast.

[Professor
Manuel Trajtenberg, chairman of the Committee of University Heads]
delivered his speech to an incomplete forum. The Ariel University
president was absent. The formal explanation given for his absence
was that the Ariel University president is not a member of Committee
of University Heads, so he was not invited.

That explanation, however, obviously neither holds water nor lives
up to a single legal or even ethical criterion. If such is the case,
then it means Trajtenberg refuses to accept Ariel University's
status as a true university, despite the government's decision to
upgrade the institution. Actually, it makes Trajtenberg the head of
a committee that refuses to honor the government's decision. So be
it.
…
Any reasonable individual can see that the university professor
heads have conglomerated, acting as an extortionist gang and doing
with academia as it pleases. Divvying up the budget among the
council, an estimated 8 billion shekels ($2.3 billion), is done as
if the universities were state unto themselves.

Two Leftist Academics
Demand Israel "Recognize" Palestine even if the Arabs Refuse to
Recognize Israel

Oded Eran (TAU,
Institute for National Security) and Robbie Sabel (Hebrew U,
Dept of Law) preach capitulation to Arab irredentist claims
while posturing over the merits of creating a second Hamastan
bordering on the Israeli heartland. Eran and Sabel
allege that a self-claimed Arab State would be no better than the
State of Israel as neither have fixed borders or a formally
recognized capital. *This* is who led negotiations and advises the
Foreign Ministry. We now know how Israeli politicians were
hoodwinked into signing the failed Oslo experiment.

Notwithstanding its concerns it might be
worthwhile for Israel, and maybe the US, too, to consider taking the
initiative and supporting the State of Palestine's accession to the
UN. True, it will be a state with no permanent borders and a
self-declared capital, with major issues such as the refugees still
unresolved. It will not, however, be much different from its
neighbor Israel in this respect. Israel's borders with the
Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank, and with Lebanon and
Syria are still to be permanently fixed, and its capital, Jerusalem,
is not formally recognized by the international community.

Beyond exposing the hollow Palestinian threat,
such a move will turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into just one
of close to 200 international disputes on territories and borders.
Jerusalem, security, refugees and mutual recognition of their
national status will still have to be negotiated, but that will be
carried out by two legally equal entities.

Tel Aviv University - TAU
Officials OK Terrorist's Land Day Lecture on Campus

Students protest the participation of Mohammad Kana'neh, who served
jail time after being convicted of working for Hezbollah, in a
Hadash movement sponsored Land Day conference on campus. TAU
officials believe that Terrorists are also entitled to freedom of
speech. Conference participants believe they are above any
criticism.

Students
of rightist and centrist political groups in Tel Aviv University
protested the invitation of an Arab-Israeli to partake in a Land Day
conference on campus, after serving a prison sentence for contacting
a foreign agent.

Ahead of the conference, expected to take place next Monday, the
protesters turned to the university's management and demanded to
cancel the participation of the man, Mohammad Kana'neh, former
secretary general of the Abnaa el-Balad (People of the Land)
organization. The event's organizers claimed the rioters attempt to
silence them.
…
Kana'neh had served 30 months in prison after being convicted of
contacting a source working for Hezbollah and transferring
information to Palestinian terror activists.

"There is place for a pluralistic debate on campus, but no place for
a terror-encouraging debate," the protesters noted while demanding
"tighter inspection of the (Arab) movements' activities by the
university."
…
Jaber Basal, member of the Tel Aviv University Hadash movement,
said: "It is our right to partake in any conference on campus. Every
person has a different view. They call some of us 'terrorists', and
we also see the representatives of their political parties as
criminals of war who should be persecuted in an international court…
I suggest that no one teaches us what to do."

Tel Aviv University said in response: "The university maintains
freedom of speech on campus, and it allows public activity initiated
by the students in accordance to the rules of conduct of the State
of Israel and previous court rulings, as long as the following
conditions are kept: Keeping the law of the State of Israel,
maintaining university regulations, procedures and property, keeping
public order and the proper order of the teaching, research and work
on campus. In the case in question, all of these conditions were met
and thus the university approved the activity."

Hebrew University - Amiram Goldblum
(Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences) Being Taken to Task for Running
his Tendentious Anti-Israel Pseudo-Poll about "Apartheid"

Maurice Ostroff blames (somewhat maliciously) misleading questions
and unethical analysis of the data for the "Apartheid" conclusion to
the poll commissioned by Goldblum and his fund. Quite opposite to
the poll's "conclusion," Ostroff maintains that the poll's data
prove that Israelis are less racist than many Western countries or
the Arab world.

Unfortunately
the manner in which the poll was conducted and interpreted has
achieved the diametric opposite. For example according to Haaretz,
Arab MK's said that the survey verifies their sense of increasing
radicalization of Israelis and the marginalization of Arab citizens
to the fringes of Israeli society; hardly promoting the
understanding and dialog that your fund aims to promote. Their
conclusions would be acceptable if based on facts but their
prejudicial views are unjustified since they result from flaws in
the poll as explained below.

Worse still, rather than promoting peace, the reaction to the poll
incites hatred of Israel, making peace with our neighbors more
difficult. It promoted a viral international negative reaction by
media who, without bothering to analyze the poll results, hastily
and irresponsibly reproduced Gideon Levy's misinterpretation.
…
For the purpose of illustration, let's discuss the results of
question 8 which asks whether respondents would object to having an
Arab neighbor. In your press statement you unjustifiably infer an
attitude of apartheid as you conclude that 42% of the total
population does not want an Arab family as neighbors in their
building.

This is not a reasonable inference as the actual results show that
fully 68% of the 235 secular respondents and 66% of the 82 Russians
have no objection to Arab neighbors.

The 79% of the Ultra orthodox and 62% of the Orthodox respondents
that skew the results would object to any neighbors who don't
observe the Sabbath, whether Arab or Jewish. Their attitudes bear no
relationship to South African legislated apartheid. In any event
these opinions cannot be regarded as significant as they are
expressed by a very small number of respondents; only 60 Ultra
orthodox and 50 religious.

2. Understanding the questions

The weakest aspect of this poll is the admission in your press
statement that you asked about apartheid despite the fact that it
was unclear what the respondents understood by the term. The poll
should be dismissed as unreliable on this account alone.

Surely the most important requirement for any credible survey is
that the respondents understand what they are being asked.

In fact it appears that even the pollsters don't understand the
meaning of apartheid. Yes there are extremist tendencies in Israel
that should be opposed but they bear no relationship to apartheid. I
speak from personal experience… And I state categorically that the
situation in Israel and the West bank bears no resemblance to South
African apartheid.
…
In the circumstances I suggest with respect that the laudable
objectives of the Israela Goldblum Fund have been seriously set back
by this poll.

Safit makes his 'discovery' in his convoluted
justification of the PA's bid for Statehood that bypasses the peace
negotiations and violates the Oslo Accords.

Safit
is an activist with One
Voice, a far-leftist pro-Palestinian propaganda organization. He
recently hosted some films at a presentation at the 7th annual
"Other Voices from
Israel" seminar. Safit's presentation was titled New Voices, and
every one of these "New Voices" was a pro-Palestinian voice… One
Voice activists are all for a two state solution, even if two states
means Hamastan metastasizing from Gaza to the West Bank. Their
"philosophy" is to cheer on the Palestinians no matter what they do
or say. Amusingly, Palestinian activists and organizers like the
ISM's Ali Abunimah
still condemn One Voice anyway as being "too pro-Israel."
…
Safit, the Learned Philm Philosopher, tries to explain his ideas
[supporting the PLO's attempt to bypass peace negotiations and
violate the Oslo Accords in order to get the UN to declare a
Palestinian state] based on Jewish morality and lofty aims in an
article he wrote in The Jewish Week… He even recruits the Bible
as pro-Palestinian propaganda:
…
He sums things up thusly: "It was Moses' greatness to tell the
people the truth: 'We will not arrive soon at the Promised Land; but
we will continue on the path, and we will endure, and one day, if
not we, then our children, will prevail. Isn't this message exactly
the one Palestinian leaders are now telling their own people?
Doesn't it describe better the current Palestinian story than it
does the current Israeli one? … Standing by the values that made you
into a people proves a more trying task…'"

So Safit wants Jews to acknowledge that the true Moses of the 21st
century is the Palestinian Other!

University of Exeter –
Ilan Pappe Participates in a Kangaroo Tribunal Using Mobocracy to
Lynch Israel

Pappe uses a litany of false or misleading facts and other untruths
to prove Plan Dalet "ethnic cleansing," make illegal the justified
capture of the 1967 territories, and to vilify legitimate
anti-terror military actions. Any Court of "Law" that would accept
testimony from Ilan Pappe, a
disgraced academic and linchpin in the Tantura Hoax, must be
blatantly incompetent and obviously biased.

The
testimony of Israeli historian and socialist activist Ilan Pappe was
an interesting and revealing account of the Zionists' leadership
strategy to rid the Palestinians from their homeland since the
1940s. He testified that the expulsions were not decided on an ad
hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the
ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in accordance with Plan Dalet drawn
up in 1947 by Israel's leaders then.

He testified that the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948
constituted ethnic cleansing, as the Zionists movement was not
concerned with the native people. He revealed that it was as early
as in the 1940s when the Zionists began deliberating the fate of the
indigenous people of Palestine and that they wanted to take over
Palestine with as little Palestinians in it by having them leave
voluntarily or be forced out.

He further revealed that from 1948 until 1949, the plan was enforced
by Zionist forces to cleanse villages and towns of Palestinians by
encircling the villages/towns from three flanks to intimidate the
residents into leaving by leaving one flank open. Some 530 villages
were wiped out physically. Under the partition plan, 56% of the land
[much of which the Negev desert - Isracampus] was to be handed to
Israel wherein the 2/3 of the population was Palestinians. In the
end, 93% of the land came under the control of Israel [after being
attacked by 7 Arab armies - Isracampus] and 750,000 Palestinians
were left out as refugees in neighbouring countries, in Gaza and
West Bank. After the 1967 war, Gaza and West Bank were occupied.

He added that having taken over most of Palestine territories, the
Zionist policy changed from expelling to destroying the
Palestinians. Hence, the Sabra & Shatilla massacre was an attempt to
destroy Palestinians in Lebanon.

He told the tribunal that the use of military action against
Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank was considered genocidal against
people who cannot defend themselves. Military operations such as
Summer Rains, Autumn Clouds, and Cast Lead were just to kill the
Palestinians and destroy the economy, culture and their spirit.

In cross-examination by Amicus Curiae Jason Kay, Prof Pappe agreed
that his view of history is a minority view…

The consequences for Israel are clear. Like in Switzerland, the
U.S. and Germany, the central government’s responsibility and
authority should be cut back to the domains that can only be dealt
with nationally, like the military, nation-wide transportation and
ecological management. The rest should be delegated to smaller
units.
…
The cultural differences in Israel are bigger than in Switzerland
and probably the U.S. too, and the animosity between different
groups here has led to the point where national religious, Haredi,
Liberal and Arab citizens are afraid they can no longer live here.
Moving towards a form of cantonal autonomy for Israel’s various
groups could bring us all the relief that we can live and let live
without stepping on each other’s toes.

The documentary 'Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land' is a
single-sided Arab viewpoint on the conflict that uses false premises
and misleading assertions to place the sole blame for the lack of
peace in the Middle East on the Israeli Government. Gordon and his
fellows try to present the 'peace loving' Arab fallach farmers as
being misunderstood simple folk that are being demonized by
intimidating Jewish Organizations. Gordon and the others justify the
use of violence these 'peace loving' people. However, Gordon and the
documentary ignore the roles of terrorist organizations, suicide
bombings, and the Arab Leadership in propagating the conflict.

Prof.
Neve Gordon: When one lives under oppression, and there is no other
way out, and he's being violated every day by violent means, then
sometimes the only way out of that situation is through violence.
Particularly if the one who is violating your rights, and taking
away your freedom is ruthless. And uses systematic methods of
violence to oppress you. Like torture.

Prof. Neve Gordon: That's not the kind of image that the media wants
to create because then all these images of Jews and Arabs working
together, of Palestinians wanting peace, would create a kind of
dissonance. It would contradict the message that the media has been
giving us for years and years. Then how do you explain it? You can't
explain it.

Prof. Neve Gordon: Their struggle in many ways is a just struggle.
And they're struggling for a state. We in Israel have a state, the
American people have a state, why shouldn't the Palestinian people
have a state?

Tel Aviv University - Aeyal
Gross (Dept of Law) Continues to Lead the Anti-Semitic Heterophobes

Gross receives international acclaim as a leader within the 'pinkwashing'
criticism movement of Israeli "apartheid."

The
cynical use of queer rights as a publicity strategy to create a
positive, humane image for Israel is not new, nor is it exclusive to
New Zealand. In 2011 the Jewish lesbian writer Sarah Schulman
published an op-ed in the New York Times criticising Israel’s
‘strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’
human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay
life’. Other prominent queer Jews have echoed Schulman’s criticism
of pinkwashing, including Judith Butler and Aeyal Gross.

Haaretz Newspaper, The Radical Left-Wing
Mouthpiece, has started to question what "constitutes legitimate
expression." Haaretz runs Amiel Ungar's op-ed questioning where
'Critical Thinking' stops and where abiding the enemy and treason
begins. Exposed are the methods of the Israeli Far-Left for framing
and controlling the 'legitimate' political debate by 'outlawing'
opinions with which it can not compete. As a minority opinion, the
Israeli Far-Left has been warned to curb its abuse of the subjective
processes of politicized selection and rewards.

High school civics teacher
Adam Verete, who used his position of authority to impose his
extreme left-wing views on his students, and made a student who
courageously challenged his views an object of ridicule, was
reinstated. Popular music icon Ariel Zilber's lifetime
achievement award (given by Israel's national performing artists'
association) was
downgraded … for uttering politically incorrect views that were
no more inflammatory than those uttered by prize winners identified
with the Israeli left.

As both stories were in the spotlight in Israel simultaneously, it
naturally raised the issue why freedom of expression was upheld for
Verete the leftist teacher and denied Zilber the rightist musician.
… The debate over the limits of free speech in Israel is not an
honest one but merely a continuation of the political struggle by
other means.

Israel's political left wants to frame the political debate by
dictating what constitutes legitimate expression and what
constitutes "racism" or "incitement." In this way it can monopolize
the debate and exclude opinions that it disagrees with. One means of
doing so is to punish the proponents of "incorrect" viewpoints. In
December 2013, for example, we witnessed the grotesque spectacle of
Haifa University
retracting an honorary doctorate from Nobel laureate Professor
Israel Aumann because it found his political views discordant.

But why wait for a person with incorrect views to make a name for
himself and then blackball him? A better tactic is to adopt a
Bolshevik prophylactic approach that will prevent entire categories
of undesirables from achieving influence and renown. This was the
thrust of
Amir Oren's warning that the top ranks of the Shin Bet security
service were becoming infested with religious Zionists the most
dangerous carriers of incorrect thinking…
…
One can understand the anguish of the left in seeing the
representatives of religious Zionism advance to major positions in
the IDF and the Shin Bet because these positions presage future
corporate and political leadership roles. But if the left is worried
that there are too many knitted skullcaps in the Shin Bet, it must
beef up its own share of potential applicants.
…
If Oren and his friends want to impose what Huntington called the
"subjective model", where correct political viewpoints would trump
qualifications, they should ponder the consequences not only for the
Shin Bet but for the Israeli left as well.

Israel's political and demographic trends in Israel are far from
encouraging for the left, and as a minority it has more to lose from
a politicized selection and rewards process. For example, the makeup
of Israel's Supreme Court or the Political Science Department at
Beersheva University would look a lot different if they had to
reflect dominant political opinions rather than presumed
objectivity. By denying Zilber and Aumann honors and seeking to
block the career advancement of religious Zionists, the left is
inviting a backlash and an overdose of its own medicine.

If I were an American Jew, I’d worry about
Israel’s racist cancerAmid the awareness that Israel is sliding toward an apartheid
regime, the silence of Jews worldwide is deafening.

If I were an American Jew who held Israel dear, I would view the
crisis afflicting the greatest Jewish dream in modern times with
despair.

When sitting down to Shabbat dinner with my adult children, I
would hear that Israel no longer represents the values on which
they were raised: human dignity, equal rights, a pluralistic
society, and the obligation to fight for the weak and the
persecuted. In the eyes of America’s future economic and
political leaders, Israel no longer has a place in the family of
enlightened nations. It has become the South Africa of the 21st
century.
…
If I were an American Jew, I would conclude that this was a time
of emergency. It’s not the Iranian threat that endangers
Israel’s survival, it’s the moral and ethical collapse of its
society.
…
But if the vision of an open, egalitarian and peace-loving
Israel is important to Jews around the world, they can’t leave
the chances of fulfilling it in the hands of the Israelis alone.
The racist cancer, after 47 years of occupation and domination
of another people, has spread deep into Israeli society.

World Jewry must help Israel be cured of it. It must speak out and
act. It must come out openly and sever any economic, cultural or
political tie with any person or organization that promotes turning
Israel into a racist apartheid state, whether a settler, a rabbi who
preaches violence, or a politician who promotes racist legislation.

Ben Gurion University -
SLAPP Suit Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) Joins Those
Insisting that Critics of the BDS Movement be Silenced

Israel-Hating Gordon, who filed a
fascist SLAPP suit against a professor who dared to criticize
his public political writings and behavior, feels intimidated by the
efforts to curtail the hijacking of the public discourse on Israel
by the BDS movement.

Whether
one is for or against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a
means to change the current situation in Palestine-Israel, it is
important to recognize that boycotts are internationally affirmed
and constitutionally protected forms of political expression. As
non-violent instruments to effect political change, boycotts cannot
be outlawed without trampling on a constitutionally protected right
to political speech. Those who support boycotts ought not to become
subject to retaliation, surveillance, or censorship when they choose
to express their political viewpoint, no matter how offensive that
may be to those who disagree.

We are now witnessing accelerating efforts to curtail speech, to
exercise censorship, and to carry out retaliatory action against
individuals on the basis of their political views or associations,
notably support for BDS.

Well
certainly it seems that this was a terrible criminal offence.
However, in the general blackout of the Jewish media on what is
happening in the Arab community (eg (sic) we are told almost nothing
about the daily acts and incidents of harm and destruction to
Palestinians civilians in the occupied territories) and we know
little of what happens even close to our homes – eg (sic) how many
of us know that a Yeshiva suddenly appeared in the middle of the
Arab neighbourhood of Ein Hayam? Not a single Jewish family lives
there, yet slap bang in its center - a Yeshiva. How did that come
about? And similarly, how come right in the tenements of Acco where
Arab families live, suddenly apartments were rented to Avrechim –
not families, but Avrechim - how did that come about? And what did
we hear about their contribution to the Yom Kippur riots in Acco –
very little (the town was closed off by police and Magav next day. I
had to sneak in and talk to people and met press folk who were kept
at bay as well). Similar tactics are being attempted in Halissa, as
some of us know, no thanks to the media.

As the basis to revoke Bar Ilan's Academic Freedom, the petition implies, in bold letters by
Goldblum, that the University is producing more of the same
"incitement" that produced Yigal Amir. Goldblum's petition
gets supported by the usual group of Radical Leftwing Academics.

However, the ad published by Bar-Ilan says something else:
The Book …. PROVES how Israeli Human Rights Organizations fuel the
culture of terror and confrontation in Israel... PROVES, no less.
Nothing left for a discussion and debate. Bar Ilan thus adopted the
slandering position of the book, so that the claim of Hershkovits in
support of free speech has no basis and is ridiculous

Freedom of speech is a main cornerstone of democracy. We condemn the
Bar Ilan style of that publication that blocks free speech and
debate. Bar Ilan has well known reasons to learn from past
experience and should thus be more sensitive and exercise the utmost
efforts to teach its students to respect democratic values.

We the undersigned condemn the blocking of free speech in
that ad of Bar Ilan, we declare our pride in Israeli Human Rights
organizations and reject all attempts, by Bar Ilan or by others, to
harm them.

Apparently, Shumsky lives in his own Never Never Land composed of
historical theories and analogies of life for Jews where the real
existential threat to Jews plays no role. Shumsky is, most
interestingly, an Ashkenazic Jew whose family came from the Soviet
Union, which adds particular cynicism to his phony historical
analysis of why Israel, the Jewish state, needs replacing by a
binational state. The Jewish state gave a homeland to his family,
Jews from Russia. Shumsky is clearly no Anatoly Sharansky, who sat
in a Soviet prison for the right to live in Israel.
…
His
recent article in Ha'Aretz calls Israel to task for bothering
the poor Turks by interdicting the Mavi Marmara on its way to Gaza.
He declares how much Israel and the Jews owe Turkey today for the
Ottomans providing a refuge from Christian persecution as far back
as 1492. Of course if Erdogan had been in power back then…
…
Shumsky makes it clear that he doesn't want the Jewish state … at
all. To that end, he promotes the binational state which might
explain his being an apologist for Turkey and other allies of the
"Palestinians."

"Let both Jewish Israelis and
Palestinian-Arab Israelis launch a movement to fight for the
definition of Israel as a state of both nationalities…"

Ah, but talking about a Federation sounds so nice and all Kumbaya
touchy-feely, especially at places filled with Jewish Diaspora
adolescents such
as at the University of Texas Hillel, where
Shumsky lectured on his revolutionary ideas for "peace" (some
might call capitulation).

Shumsky would have us believe the Arabs were dealt a raw deal when
Israel was created:

"Luckily for Zionism, a sovereign Arab
state did not arise in place of the Ottoman Empire. Instead the Arab
territories were severed by the Western powers into separate
countries in a process that strengthened tribe loyalties and
deepened the cultural alienation among different Arab populations,
creating or shaping new Arab national identities based on local
territory."

He continues, "In
this context, it's understandable that the Palestinians -- who did
not reject the justified Israeli demands that Arab countries
compensate Jewish refugees -- do not accept the comparison between
Jewish refugees from Arab lands and Palestinian refugees from the
Land of Israel/ Palestine." (Like the Arabs have seriously offered
to compensate Jews for lost property in Iraq, in Egypt, in Lebanon,
etc.).

SO there are kosher refugees in need of reparations, meaning Arabs,
and unkosher refugees deserving nothing, meaning Jews.

It sounds like a Purim gag, and if only it
were.
…
A petition was organized to denounce Bar Ilan University for
allowing Black to speak on campus and demanding that the event
surrounding the publication of Black's book be cancelled. The
petition was organized by Peace Now co-founder
Amiram Goldblum, a far-leftist professor of pharmaceutical
studies at the Hebrew University… Goldblum is behind many of the
attempts to paint Israel as an apartheid regime and
has called for international pressure to suppress Israeli
sovereignty and coerce the country to accept the diktats of the tiny
ultra-leftist minority.

It is also amusing to see the list of tenured
radicals who signed the petition to suppress academic freedom at Bar
Ilan University. The list includes many academics who have ever
demanded that critics of the Radical Left be silenced and
suppressed. It is worth going through the list of signers one by
one.

Illouz's flawed slavery analogy is just too flawed, even for
leftists.

But
her deeply flawed ["occupation" is "slavery"] argument—which, to
judge by the number of times her essay has been forwarded to me
since its publication this weekend, is enjoying its share of
attention—deserves a sharp rebuttal let this morally repugnant
analogy bloom any further. It's easy enough to debunk on historical
grounds, and I hope some prominent historian of slavery soon does;
in the meantime, however, I wish to point out not the intellectual
weakness of Illouz's analogy but its absolute moral impoverishment.
…
But decrying Israel's needless arrests, wanton violence, or
hard-hearted policies—all of which I've done, in print or in
person—oughtn't to preclude one from observing that even Palestinian
leftists are
marching against negotiations with the Jewish state, or that in
the midst of said negotiations the Palestinian president, Mahmoud
Abbas, welcomed the convicted murderers Israel had released as a
gesture of good will by celebrating them as heroes and saying not a
peep about peace, or that a fair survey of the barriers to
reconciliation erected over the course of the last two decades would
assign a healthy dose of blame on both sides of the conflict. To
assume otherwise is Manichean or, worse
…
If their [the Arab] existence is closely determined by anyone's
decision, it's that of the governments they had freely elected. And
when they fall victim to will and power, it's not always the will
and the power of the Israelis: … 16 percent of all Palestinian
civilian deaths were caused "by Palestinian groups or individuals,"
often as a result of infighting between various factions vying for
power.

These observations, naturally, only complicate the black-and-white
beauty of Illouz's slavery analogy, and as such go unnoticed. And
that is an insult not only to those of us who struggle to keep our
thinking on this complex issue grounded and free of fevered dogma…
If there is indeed a dichotomy in the Jewish community, let it be
between those of us who thumb the almanac of historical evils
searching for some feint trace of likelihood with which to kindle
our outrage and those of us who know better.

Hebrew University -
University Heads Allow Students to Bring 'Apartheid Week' to
Hebrew U Campus

Students put up photo exhibit defaming IDF as an 'occupation army,'
and call for 'Palestine' to be 'liberated' with the approval of
Hebrew U's Regents.

Adi
Golan, the head of the university's Ta Lavi pro-Likud student group,
told Arutz Sheva that Arab students were behind the
defamatory exhibit, which is located in a central hallway frequented
daily by the university's regents. The Arab students put up photos
depicting the IDF negatively with inciteful texts, reports Golan.
The texts define IDF soldiers as "hunters of freedom," call Israel
"Palestine," and the IDF an "occupying army." … Sections of the Arab
text declare that "Palestine will be liberated."
…
Ta Lavi submitted a complaint to the board of regents, which
responded by saying that the issue is being looked into.
…
A voice uniquely qualified for disproving
accusations of apartheid against Israel was sounded last
September by Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the Parliament of
South Africa and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP).
Meshoe argued that "anyone who knows what apartheid really is and
still makes such a claim [about Israel] should be
told to their faces that they are lying."

Ben-Dror Yemini, the Maariv Editor, rejects Illouz's claim of Arab
Slavery and defines it as an attempt by Illouz to demonize Israel.
He corrects Illouz's feeble attempts to distort the truth. Illouz
seems to have mis-read data, quoted untruthful and long-since
retracted stories, and misrepresented irrelevant data to such an
extent that Yemini questions her common sense and analytical
abilities.

The
word "demonization" is commonly tossed around in the global debate
on Israel. Demonization is not synonymous with criticism.
Demonization, as its name implies, is the attempt to depict Israel
as a monster -- a state established on the basis of crimes against
humanity, racism, apartheid and fascism. We were recently subject to
a fascinating example of demonization in a piece by professor Eva
Illouz published in Ha'aretz ("47 years a slave," Feb. 7, 2014.)
Illouz's argument, put briefly, is that the Israeli occupation of
the West Bank requires a new definition: slavery, no less.
…
To the matter at hand: The West Bank is home to between 1.4-2.4
million people (demographers are split on the matter.) In what world
does the demolition of 173 buildings lead to the conclusion of a
systematic policy of house demolitions? Are philosophers and
sociologists exempt from common sense? Every government, even in
Sweden, prohibits illegal construction. Moreover, the Palestinian
Authority is currently constructing an entire city, Rawabi, with
thousands of houses. How does this relate to systematic house
demolitions and what does "slavery" have to do with it?

Marez's benighted response is more than simply
bigoted, it is mendacious.

His association is not simply starting with Israel, it is stopping
with Israel… This too is the paradigm of bigotry: starting and
ending with one ethnic or religious group and applying a different
standard to every other group.
…
He too had to start and stop somewhere. So he singled out the Jews.
Was this anti-Semitic? The answer to the question, is the singling
out of the nation state of the Jewish people for an academic boycott
an act of anti-Semitism, the answer is, if the shoe fits...

Here not only does the shoe fit, but like
Cinderella's slipper, the bigoted shoe in this case fits only one
group: academic institutions in the nation state of the Jewish
people.

There are those who claim that the BDS movement against Israel
cannot be anti-Semitic, because it is directed at a country and not
at individuals… That defense won't work. Treating the Jew among
nations precisely the way classic anti-Semites have treated the
Jewish people is simply a new adaptation of the oldest of
prejudices.
…
Let those who want to boycott nations apply the simple test of
morality: the worst first. Let them apply another moral test:
focusing first on those countries in which dissent is not tolerated
and in which there is no internal recourse against violations of
human rights.

Applying these tests to Israel would put the
nation state of the Jewish people at the very bottom of countries
deserving to be boycotted. But by ignoring the worst and condemning
a nation that is near the very top in terms of human rights,
academic freedom and the rule of law, the bigotry of the condemners
becomes obvious.

The Lack of Pluralism at
Israeli Universities is an Existential Threat to the Economy and
Society.

Many Israeli students are brainwashed with radical Marxist,
anti-entrepreneurship dogma by their professors, producing useless
diplomas and under-skilled graduates in the economic reality of the
Israeli job market.

Things
are much worse in Israel. Universities help shape a radical view
where entrepreneurship is frowned upon. The ethos they espouse is
diametrically opposed to the Zionist vision that touted hard work as
the linchpin of a merit-based society. Liberal arts programs focus
on "redistributing wealth" rather than on pursuing a successful
career, as if wealth just descends from the heavens and simply needs
to be distributed "fairly" (whatever that means).

What's worse is that students are told that profit is a product of
exploitation and therefore any transaction is a zero-sum game. But
that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Israelis students come out of
university determined not to be suckers; they make sure their
clients and business partners will forever be at a disadvantage.
Human capital is Israel's most important asset. But in academia, the
social sciences and humanities are dominated by a group of
postmodern neo-Marxist zealots who shun anyone who is not like them,
anyone who does not adhere to their radical economic and political
principles or subscribe to their anti-capitalist ideology. They have
devoided higher education of any critical thought that is grounded
in reality. (Remember that dissertation that accused Israeli
soldiers of racism because they wouldn't rape Palestinian women?)

Hundreds of thousands of young Israelis enter universities because
they want to get a better job, only to be systematically brainwashed
on dogmatic principles. They graduate from universities without the
proper skills, having been denied useful information or analytical
tools for what lies ahead. It is then that they realize that their
hard-earned diplomas have no real value on the job market…

The lack of real pluralism in Israeli universities poses an
existential threat to our economy and society. Wouldn't the massive
subsidies that help students obtain useless degrees -- which have no
vocational value and create an inflation of hundreds of
pseudo-academics -- be better spent on vocational training and real
know-how?

Hebrew University - Moshe
Amirav (Dept
of Urban Studies) Wants to Appease the PLO by Dividing Jerusalem
Since that Sure Worked Well Before 1967

For years Amirav has been spewing the usual Leftist gloom and doom
about the demographic specter of old and how Israel has failed to
unify Jerusalem.

There
are three national targets which all Israeli governments have been
trying to achieve in Jerusalem since 1967: Demographic, territorial
and political. The national effort has failed and the targets have
not been achieved.
…
The political scenario is the most difficult: The annual Palestinian
growth rate is 3.5% today, compared to a growth rate of only 1.5%
among the Jewish residents. Within 10 years, Jerusalem will have a
Palestinian majority.

In fact, in as early as the next elections they will have the
possibility of becoming the ruling party in Jerusalem and crowning a
mayor of their own. An organized vote will give them a majority in
the city council, and a Palestinian mayor will anyway be elected…
Our conclusion, which has become even stronger, was: Without
dividing Jerusalem – we are about to lose it!

Addressing an International Conference of Communist Parties, Cassif
promotes the
Arab Water Hoax as part of his trashing the State of Israel as
an imperialist, capitalist, and colonialist blight on the face of
the Earth. Also rejects the implementation of Israeli Civil Law in
the Negev and encourages the Bedouin land-grabs there in the name of
Marxism.

If
I may quote comrade Rosa Luxemburg, it seems that particularly
nowadays the world as a whole faces two options only: socialism or
barbarism. When capitalism runs amok and destructively tries to
invade wherever and however it can; when imperialist powers
(primarily USA and EU) are systematically in the offense, when the
people's rights to democracy and social justice, control of natural
resources and wellbeing are under vicious attack by imperialism,
capitalism, chauvinism and xenophobia – it's our obligation, not
solely right, to join forces and fight back our common enemies,
namely capitalists and their allies…

The situation in Israel proper as well as in the Palestinian
Occupied Territories is grave. As far as the occupation is
concerned, Israel colonization of the territories is not only going
on under the auspices of USA and its financial and political
support, but actually only getting deeper and crueler. Natural
resources like water and land are regularly robbed by Israeli
Zionist authorities for the sake of Jewish settlers; Palestinians'
freedom of movement, worship and assembly are strictly limited;
peaceful demonstrators and non-violent protesters are often
arrested, beaten, and occasionally even shot; and trees, fields and
other assets owned by Palestinians are burnt and damaged on a daily
basis by Jewish settlers, while Israeli soldiers and other officials
ignore that fascist vandalism…
…
The most deprived population in Israel is the Arab Palestinian
Bedouin of Al Naqab. Not only that that population is the poorest,
with the least access to healthcare, education and other social
services, but a great part of its communities live in historic
villages which the governments of Israel consistently refuse to
recognize and supply with elementary goods such as running water and
electricity. Furthermore, just a few weeks ago the Israeli
parliament (the Knesset) enacted the infamous Prawer Law whose
realization is going to confiscate 800,000 dunums of land in Al
Naqab and expel over 50,000 Bedouins from their native land and
residence. This inhumane plan will also lead to the demolition of 35
historic Arab villages that the governments of Israel continuously
refuse to recognize, and will confine 30% of Arab Bedouins in Al
Naqab to 1% of the land.
…
As Marxist-Leninists, we know that reality should be analyzed as a
totality. Indeed, the abovementioned elements are dialectically
interrelated and together constitute one whole: a totality of
capitalism interwoven with Zionist colonialism and racism. In the
case of Israeli governments and ruling classes, Zionism and politics
of fear are regularly used in order to divide the working class and
the exploited strata as a whole and rule them by means of panic and
intimidation. Thus, instead of directing their rage against their
exploiters and oppressors, Israeli masses (especially the Jewish
ones) are encouraged by those ruling forces to aim their anger and
frustration at Arabs, refugees and other "outsiders".

Illouz, who introduced the
leftist litmus test for student applicants at Bezalel, claims
Arabs are like black slaves in the US before emancipation. Later in
the text she qualifies the claim as an imperfect analogy only to use
it to bash Israel again. She likens the "Occupation" to American
Slavery through ideologies of domination and demonstrates the
presence of an Israeli domination ideology through the Ashkenazi-Mizrachi
cultural wars of the past. In a tirade of ultra-Leftist distorted
factoids, Illuoz selectively takes from Israel's war on terror to
build her case for slavery and "cherry picks" quotes from Jewish
theological theory to provide "evidence" of a widespread Jewish
supremacist population. Illouz vilifies the Right as being
moral-less while patting herself and her fellow ultra-Leftists on
the back for being morally superior. Within her "morally
superiority", she "emancipates" Israel's Enemies to drive the Jews
into the sea.

If
Israel is indeed singled out among the many nations that have a bad
record in human rights, it is because of the personal sense of shame
and embarrassment that a large number of Jews in the Western world
feel toward a state that, by its policies and ethos, does not
represent them anymore… Supreme irony of history: Israel has
splintered the Jewish people around two radically different moral
visions of Jews and humanity.
...
I will call one group the "security as morality" group. For this
group, Israel is twice morally beyond reproach. … Surveying history,
the "security as morality" group observes that might has regularly
been right, and that Israel is no less entitled to its violent
policies than America or other countries have been to their own…

The second group of Jews derives its positions from universal
standards of justice, and from the observation that Israel is fast
moving away from the pluralistic, multiethnic, pacific democracies
of the world. Israel stopped being a valid source of identification
for these Jews not because they are self-hating, but because many of
them have been actively involved, in deed or thought, in the
liberalization of their respective societies…

Israel makes an unacceptable demand: it requests from Jews loyalty
to its policies, claims to have a moral and political status
superior to that of its neighbors, yet consistently violates the
human rights of Palestinians, Arabs, and liberal Judaism; uses
violence; violates international law; and practices state-sanctioned
discrimination toward non-Jews. For liberal Jews, Israel bullies
like a Goliath, yet persists in wanting to be admired as a David.
…
But the military metaphor with which Israelis have made sense of
their relationship to Palestinians hides a disturbing fact: what
started as a national and military conflict has morphed into a form
of domination of Palestinians that now increasingly borders on
conditions of slavery. If we understand slavery as a condition of
existence and not as ownership and trade of human bodies, the
domination that Israel has exercised over Palestinians turns out to
have created the matrix of domination that I call a "condition of
slavery."
…
The violence exercised by the military does not stop there. During
Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, the IDF used Gazan civilians as
"human shields," a practice prohibited by Israeli and international
law and conventionally viewed as barbarian. Using others as human
shields consists of taking civilians as hostages, using them for
Israeli military purposes, threatening their families with injury if
they don't cooperate with the Israel Defense Forces' attempt to
obtain information.
…
We can say conservatively and impressionistically that 70 percent of
the Palestinian population live with a permanent sense of dishonor,
conduct their lives without predictability and continuity, live in
fear of Jewish terror and of the violence of the Israeli military
power, and are afraid to have no work, shelter or family… These
conditions can only be named by their proper name: conditions of
slavery.
…
The reason for this is that Israel has its own proslavery lobby,
which is now in the corridors of power, shapes Israel's policy and
has successfully managed to make the occupation appear to be a
containable casualty of war and nation-building. The settlers'
discourse – which only 20 years ago was marginal in Israeli society
–has become mainstream, and one can only be struck by its
resemblance to the 19th-century American proslavery ideology.
…
An example of Jewish supremacy can be seen in the book "The King's
Torah" ("Torat Hamelech"), written by the head rabbi of Yeshivat Od
Yosef Chai. According to the book, Jews are superior to non-Jews,
with Gentiles being close to animals because they did not accept the
Seven Laws of Noah. In an amended world, killing a non-Jew who does
not accept the commandments of Noah will become necessary… In a
review of the book, the highly respected historian Yehuda Bauer
suggests that the book is not a marginal phenomenon of a handful of
extremists.
…
Israel is dangerously sailing away from the moral vocabulary of most
countries of the civilized world. The fact that many readers will
think that my sources are unreliable because they come from
organizations that defend human rights proves this point. Israel no
longer speaks the ordinary moral language of enlightened nations.
But in refusing to speak that language, it is de facto dooming
itself to isolation. Israel will not indefinitely have the cake of
"democracy" and eat it in the occupation.

In an example of uber-leftist hypocrisy and more than a decade after
she had him
unjustly fired, Tamir accused Shiran of Yigal Amir style
incitement during a national radio interview to justify the usurping
of his freedom of speech. Shiran has had his lawyers demand a
retraction from Tamir and pay a huge sum as compensation.

One
would be hard pressed to find a clearer illustration of uber-leftist
hypocrisy. The same "professor" who initiated the campaign to get
Shiran fired for expressing an opinion OUTSIDE of the classroom is
also leading the campaign to defend the right of a communist to
indoctrinate his students IN the classroom. All in the name of
academic freedom.

Yuli was called to task for all this in a radio show this week,
where she was interviewed by Yoaz Handel, a right of center
journalist. Sister Yuli tried to explain the difference in her
behavior in the two cases. In the case of Shiran, she explained,
Shiran was clearly involved in "borderline incitement" when he wrote
his letter to the Ministry of Government, the exact same sort of
incitement that caused Yigal Amir to murder Yitzhak Rabin. (Yes,
leftist theology in Israel continues to claim that freedom of speech
being exercised by non-leftists produced the Rabin murder!)

In Yuli's words, Shiran crossed the delicate line between expressing
an opinion and engaging in incitement that carries a clear and
present danger of violence. Yuli: "When there is a clear and present
danger of violence, the right of freedom of speech must be halted."
She also accused Shiran of being a follower of Meir Kahane. He is
not. I suspect however that Yuli is a follower of Stalin.

Shiran responded by having his lawyer send Yuli Tamir a letter
threatening to file against her an immediate defamation suit. Given
his successful track record in court, I certainly hope Rabbi Shiran
will follow through with it.

Attacking Defense Minister Yaalon's comments on
Kerry's questionable tactics, Shlaim expects Israel to shrivel up
and go away because the Arabs want us to. Or because Kerry tells us
so, even when it seems like Kerry is the one playing
fast and loose with the facts. Where is Shlaim's outrage at
racist Arab demands for a
Judenrein state?

[Shlaim] suggests
that the special relationship between the United States and Israel

"is a one-way street, with America doing all the diplomatic
heavy lifting while Israel limits its role to obstruction and
whining — repaying Uncle Sam's generosity with ingratitude and
scorn...America gives Israel money, arms and advice. Israel takes
the money, it takes the arms, and it rudely rejects the advice."

and later, goes
overboard, with no manners, writing

"The Kerry-hating Mr. Yaalon and his hawk-infested Likud
party"

"Infested"? Like
in
vermin?
…
So, if I write that Shlaim rhymes with
slime, am I rude?

"There is no rational
argument, however, that Israel's occupation of the West Bank serves
America's national interest. On the contrary, as General David
Petraeus told a Senate committee in 2010, the occupation foments
anti-American sentiment throughout the Islamic world and hinders the
development of America's partnership with Arab governments. A
resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is therefore a major,
if not vital American interest.
…
Mr. Kerry is to be commended for the energy and commitment that he
has displayed in pursuit of peace in the Middle East and for the 11
trips he has made to the region in his first year in office. But his
peace mission was doomed to failure from the start. The Kerry-hating
Mr. Yaalon and his hawk-infested Likud party are committed to the
geopolitical status quo on the West Bank at almost any price. Their
real aim is to terminate the peace talks and blame the Palestinians.

In a normal country a
defense minister who played fast and loose with such a crucial
bilateral relationship would have been thrown out on his ear. But
Israel is not a normal country."
…
The fundamental problem with American support for Israel is its
unconditional nature. Consequently, Israel does not have to pay a
price for acting unilaterally in a multilateral world, for its
flagrant violations of international law, and for its systematic
abuse of Palestinian human rights."

Ontario College - BH Yael (Dept
of Art) Uses her Biased Racism to Produce Bigoted Films with
which to Attack Israel

As an ISM operative, Yael participated in the radical Israel
Apartheid Week on Canadian Campuses in which she screened her
"academic" films.

B.H. Yael was one of the original organizers of the despicable
attempt by anti-Israel activists in Canada to
malign the Toronto International Film Festival for its Tel Aviv
spotlight in 2009. She spoke during Israeli Apartheid Week on
her campus and other Canadian campuses
alongside the
serial ISM liars Anna Baltzer and Ali Abunimah, both of whom
have called
violence against Israelis an acceptable means of protest. Yael
screened a film praising ISM rioters in the West Bank and showing
alleged atrocities by Israel against the Arabs by Israel. She openly
acknowledges her films
are biased and upset Jewish audiences:
…
B.H. Yael's mother was an Iraqi Jewess who escaped Iraq (where today
there are no Jews at all; not so long ago Baghdad was 40% Jewish).
B.H. Yael claims she embraced her mother's background as an "Arab
Jew," whatever that is. B. H. Yael wants her listeners and viewers
to think that European Ashkenazic Jews brought with them a European
colonialism racist mentality to persecute the "Arab Jews" and, even
more so, the "Palestinians."
…
Yael's concept of the "Arab Jew," persecuted in Israel, was created
by another ex-pat Israeli woman leftist
Ella Shoehat from New York University and has been promoted by
the self-loathing Coalition of Women of Peace in Israel, a leftist
NGO dominated by communism, radical feminism, and, above all,
lesbianism. B. H. Yael fits the cult's profile…
…
"Because I was brought up by my Mum, I felt much closer to that
history, to the Iraqi Jewish narrative and the consideration of how
Mizrahi or Arab Jews experienced racism in Israel. I have been
thinking a lot about the politics of Israel, vis-à-vis Palestine, in
the last number of years: about Indigenous issues in relation to
Palestinians, about what happened to Jews in Europe, and the
subsequent impact on Arab Jews in predominantly Muslim countries,
and about the export of European racism by Ashkenazi (European) Jews
as instituted in the state of Israel and in the Territories they
occupy."
…
One of her chef d'oeuvres is the film
Deir Yassin Remembered, the perennial Arab propaganda tale of
how what would become Palestinian Arabs were "massacred" by Jewish
terrorists during the War of Independence in 1948.
Deir Yassin
was a battle, not a massacre. The real massacres were those
against Jews by Arabs. They do not interest Bad Hairdo!
…
Here is how B. H. Yael
sums up her "Palestine Trilogy":

"With profound depth and grace these
three, thematically related videos tell the tragic story of
Palestine and dispel many myths. Deir Yassin Remembered deals with
the past by focusing on a well-documented incident of the Nakba
(Catastrophe, the Palestinian term for the takeover of "their" land
in 1948) – the destruction of the thriving community of Deir Yassin.
Even in the Desert, another film, explores the contemporary
ramifications of the Israeli occupation – the displacements,
checkpoints, surveillance, walls. And the final segment, A Hot, Sand
Filled World is a visual/auditory poem signifying, perhaps, hope for
the future. What makes the whole experience particularly moving is
that the reasonable, non-confrontational voices throughout are those
of peace and social justice activists from every side – Israeli,
Palestinian, and international." Needless to say, she's a supporter
of BDS.

B. H. Yael is more than willing to use her skills as a filmmaker to
lie and manipulate audiences for such people to end the existence of
Israel. It's a great way to build a career as an academic filmmaker.
You do not even have to get a good hairdo to do so...

The list of attacks on Freedom of Speech perpetrated by the radical
Left goes on and on.

For the past couple of weeks the Radical Left in Israel has been
screaming about the "right" of communist teacher Adam Verete,
employed as a civics teacher in a northern Israeli high school, to
turn his classroom into an anti-Israel indoctrination center. He
used his classroom time to urge his students to refuse to serve in
the Israeli military. In other words, the Left insists the communist
teacher has the "right" to advocate law breaking in his classroom,
all in the name of freedom of speech…

The
leading far Leftists defending the right of Verete to indoctrinate
in the classroom include
Yuli Tamir, who once led the campaign to fire a different
teacher (and rabbi), Yisrael Shiran, because Shiran wrote a letter
OUTSIDE HIS CLASSROOM with which Tamir disagreed… He was dismissed
for this "crime" at the initiative of Tamir, but later sued the
Ministry of Education for unrightful dismissal and won a large
damages award.

Other defenders of the communist teacher include those Israeli
"intellectuals" and "academics" who insisted that the Nobel
Prize-holding Prof. Yisrael Aumann be proclaimed a pariah
undeserving of an honorary PhD because he holds opinions disliked by
the Left… And a great many of these leftists were among those who
demanded that the freedom of speech of non-leftists be suppressed
after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin based on their "theory"
holding that non-leftists exercising freedom of speech produce
murder. It goes without saying that not a single leftist in Israel
has ever protested the selective denial of free speech rights to "Kahanists."

… [O]ne of the most outrageous examples of the anti-democratic
assault by the Left has been ignored in recent years and overlooked
in the debate over freedom of speech in recent days. It involves the
case of Prof. Nahum Rakover.

Rakover is retired professor of law from Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv
Universities and now serves as president of a small college in
Israel… He is an expert in Jewish law. In the early 1990s he held a
side position as deputy legal advisor for the government of Israel,
this in the days of the Rabin-Peres government and the initiation of
Oslo appeasement.
…
Rakover was invited in to say what Jewish Law and the Torah think of
gay marriage. Rakover answered truthfully that the Torah considers
it an abomination and that granting a spouse ticket to a gay partner
is no different from giving it to someone practicing bestiality with
his dog.

That sent the PC camp into ionospheric orbit.
The Left launched a merciless venomous ad hominem assault against
Rakover, demanding his dismissal from his civil service post… The
real issue is whether Rakover or the Torah have the right to hold an
unfashionable opinion about anything. The Israeli Left unanimously
said no!

Within days, Professor Itzhak Galnoor, a Hebrew university leftist
from political science, who had earlier been a Peace Now leader,
attacked Rakover. Galnoor, today part of the semi-Marxist
Van Leer Institute, has long advocated the position that any
criticism of the Radical anti-Israel Left or questioning of its
motives amounts to "McCarthyism" and should be suppressed. See
this. … Galnoor opened up internal persecution of Rakover in the
civil service and led the campaign to get him dismissed from his
position. Demands for the dismissal of Rakover also filled the
leftist press… Citing the Torah became in effect a hate crime in PC
Israel.
…
But the radical Left's selective devotion to freedom of speech,
where everyone has the right to agree with the radical Left but no
one has the right to disagree with it, continues to run amok.

Tel Aviv University - Adi
Ophir (Dept of Philosophy) and Ariella Azoulay (Brown University -
Dept of Comparative Literature)
get Trashed for Authoring Sloppy and Shoddy Work

Even a hardcore progressive finds the book "The
One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine"
by Ophir and Azoulay a flight of fancy that is just too much
to digest. The reviewer finds a long string of critical facts that
have been conveniently omitted from the book to fraudulently lend
credence to Ophir and Azoulay's belittling and demonizing tone in
the book. Furthermore, he cites faulty, utopian, and delusional
logic in Ophir and Azoulay's analysis of the peace process and their
application of possible solutions to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

The authors have a
mocking tone throughout, loading their text with sardonic quotation
marks that invariably denigrate Israeli understandings of such
phenomena as "terrorism" or "democracy" but never modify Palestinian
phraseology such as "armed struggle" or "resistance."

Critical facts are
sometimes omitted. The nearly 1,000 Israeli deaths during the second
Intifada (overwhelmingly of non-combatant civilians within Israel's
pre-'67 boundaries) are neither mentioned nor considered by the
authors as they analyze current circumstances. Other events are
peculiarly framed.
…
Incredibly, while Ophir and Azoulay cite
Operation Grapes of Wrath, they omit mention of the terrorist
attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
…
The authors never take into account the
dynamic nature of Israeli politics and society; the fragile,
unwieldy makeup of coalition governments makes bold actions
difficult, with an electorate quick to punish established parties
and promote new ones…

While Ophir and
Azoulay are itching to illuminate the possibility of a one-state
future, they devote only
one paragraph to assert rather than explain how Palestinian refugees
might be absorbed into Israel and the Green Line eliminated (they
cite the joint activism of Israelis and Palestinians against the
separation barrier and Jewish settlements as if this proves their
case for modern binationalism). Their book thus claims there to be
an alternative to a two-state solution without taking the
opportunity to convince anyone of a one-state reality.

Nothing is said
about the legitimate interests of Israeli Jews, or about Israel's
serving as a bulwark against persecution for a historically hounded,
stateless people. The authors allude positively to "Zionism
pre-1947" as "an environment rich with political imagination that
invented new possibilities for Jewish existence," before "The
freedom to imagine... was cut down as the 'statist' stream of
Zionism took over..." — as if Jewish helplessness during the
Holocaust and ongoing Arab enmity had nothing to do with this
process.

Just because they hate Jews, that is no reason to call them
anti-Semites!

Refusal
to cooperate with the occupation is reflected in the economic and
cultural boycott against the Israeli settlers' colony. Among the
vast majority of European public opinion the boycott is seen as a
justified instrument of pressure to liberate the Palestinians. This
opinion is shared by people from the entire political spectrum,
including those who despise anti-Semitism and support Israeli
wholeheartedly.

Among the educated public in Europe, Israeli culture and science
enjoy a unique status that is not shared by any other small or
medium-sized country. Israeli scientists, writers and artists have
thus far been able to counterbalance the religious-nationalist
fanaticism that is spreading here, and they are the ones who are
preventing the attempts at an overall boycott. But for the most part
they despise Israeli colonialism, which is symbolized today more
than anything else by Ariel "University."

Israeli intellectuals are Zionism's best ambassadors, but they
represent Israeli society, not the colonialist reality. They believe
that trampling the rights of the Palestinians in the name of our
exclusive right to the country and by dint of a divine decree is an
ineradicable stain on Jewish history. Anyone who becomes entrenched
in these views will end up bringing about the international
ostracism of all of Israel, and if that happens, it won't be
anti-Semitism.

Yemini also accuses Haaretz of heading the Leftist's charge against
freedom of speech, indoctrination in the educational setting, and
the demonization of Israel in general.

An
Israeli newspaper recently called for the firing of a lecturer whose
opinions were opposed to its own. That very same newspaper, Haaretz,
is now conducting a campaign against the right of a school
administration to investigate
a complaint filed by one of its students. This newspaper,
infected by racism, contributes more than any other entity to the
demonization of Israel.
…
And the facts? Yuck. The students have no idea, for example, that in
the 1940's, population transfer was the norm. They have no idea of
the Arab leadership's continuous proclamations of intent to destroy
the fledgling state of Israel at the time. They have not a clue
about the pogroms and persecution that Jews suffered in Arab lands.
…
The protests over the Verta issue are not being held in order to
broaden the knowledge of the students or protect free speech,
because the protests are selective. A decade ago, a witch hunt of at
least double the intensity was launched against another teacher,
Israel Shiran, for his reservations about teaching Rabin's legacy.
Yuli Tamir was Minister of Education and the verbal barbs emanating
from that office against Shiran were frightening. "You are Satan's
defender…this blasted inciter, will not be allowed into any school,
even as a sanitation worker."

He was fired, but appealed and was reinstated. They kept after him
for years and he once again turned to the courts and won the case.
This was persecution. This was McCarthyism.
…
And this newspaper, that called for blackballing a professor,
lectures the rest of us about ethics and morality, while branding
others with McCarthyism. Unbelievable.

Shenkar College and Tel Aviv University - Yuli Tamir (Shenkar
College President &
TAU
Dept of Education)
Joins the Campaign to Defend Communist Indoctrination of Pupils in
the Classroom

Yuli Tamir, who as Minister of Education
fired a teacher for expressing an opinion she disliked (Yisrael
Shiran), joins the campaign to defend the right of a communist
teacher to indoctrinate his students in the classroom. She demands
that teachers promote what she considers to be "liberal and critical
views." And Those Only! She made more sense back when she was
defending clitoridectomies.

The controversy surrounding
the remarks by Kiryat Tivon high-school teacher Adam Verete attests
to the changes that have occurred in Israeli society over the last
few years, and just how far the line that marks what one can and
cannot say has shifted.

In recent decades public
discourse has moved far beyond the right's positions. In other
words, those same public stances that fluctuate on the spectrum
between the critical, democratic and humane camp to the
nationalistic camp where harming another, whether "the enemy,"
foreigner or refugee, is fair game and criticism is what's
forbidden.

…I am ashamed over the
persecution going on against teachers who express liberal or
critical views, not because I feel estranged from the Israeli
education system and its values but because I feel a great sense of
belonging to that system and want to see it, as well as Israeli
society as a whole, preserve freedom of expression.

University of Haifa - The
Tenured Ultra-Left at Haifa U gets Clobbered in Court

The case to sue the University of Haifa by
Ilan Saban (Dept of Law),
As'ad Ghanem (Dept of Political Science), and
Yuval Yonay (Dept of Sociology) for violating their 'freedom of
speech' to support terrorists during war-time gets
tossed out of
court and the Tenured Ultra-leftists are saddled with the court
fees.

The prohibition on holding [pro-Hamas] campus protests [at the
height of the Pillar of Clouds anti-terror incursion] enraged some
members of the Ultra-Left. Three radical faculty members at the
University of Haifa joined six students (five of them Arabs) and the
far-leftist Association on Civil Rights in Israel, and together
submitted a petition to the Haifa District Court against the
University. They demanded that the court proclaim the University
regulations that allow the President and Administration to regulate
and even prohibit campus political rallies to be unreasonably
disproportional, unconstitutional, and a violation of freedom of
speech.

The
three members of the faculty were led by Dr. Ilan Saban, an
ultra-Leftist instructor in the University's School of Law. This is
the same school of law that is so often in the news for things like
coercing its students into providing
free legal counsel to convicted terrorists, and for
prohibiting the singing of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikva.
Saban is one of the people who led the campaign to DEFEND the
decision to proclaim Prof. Robert Aumann
unworthy of getting an honorary degree because Aumann holds
non-leftist views…

On January 19, 2014, the Haifa District Court issued its verdict in
the case (verdict 51057-11-12, available only in Hebrew). The judge
tossed out the entire petition with obvious disdain. She argued that
there was nothing anti-democratic in the University's regulations
about campus protests and there was no violation of freedom of
speech. There was no infringement of student rights. There was
nothing unreasonable or disproportionate. In other words, the
petitioners are full of baloney.

Hebrew University - Dimitry Shumsky (Dept
of History) is the next in a string of attacks on Freedom of
Speech in which criticism of the far Left is no less than a threat
to the fabric of Israeli Society itself. Shumsky seethingly
proclaims any criticism of the fringe-left is tantamount to
supporting the "occupation".

Finally
Shumsky chimes in his own two cents
in Haaretz. His is an intriguing argument. According to Shumsky
(no relation to Chomsky), people like Ariel Rubinstein are part of
the mechanism of "occupation oppression" when they criticize the
"occupation." Really! He writes there: "One of the most efficient
ways to perpetuate the occupation and in so doing endanger the
existence of Israel and Zionism altogether is to convert internal
Israeli opposition to the occupation into an integral part of the
occupation itself." Huh?

His evidence is that Rubinstein opposes the operation of Ariel
University in the West Bank but also supports the freedom of speech
for Prof. Aumann. As you can see, Shumsky's contorted argument is
reminiscent of the "pinkwashing" charges against Israel, which hold
that tolerance towards homosexuals in Israel is all part of a
Zionist conspiracy to oppress "Palestinians." The logic of Shumsky's
piece exceeds anything since that notorious MA thesis at the Hebrew
University supervised by Eyal Ben-Ari (yes, the
convicted sexual predator professor), which found that the fact
that Israeli troops never rape Arab women is proof that the Jews are
so racist. Shumsky, by the way, has a long track record of
supporting the bi-national Rwanda-style "one state solution," in
which Israel will cease to exist altogether. His presence on the
faculty of the Hebrew University is quite instructive about the
academic standards in effect there.
…
The radical Left in Israel, including the tenured fifth column,
continues to promote the idea that freedom of speech should be
restricted to those who agree with the radical Left. And them alone.

Ben Gurion University - Oren Yiftachel
(Dept of Geography) Sees Judaism and Zionism as Racist
Threats to Society and Democracy

In a particularly vile far-leftist rant, Yiftachel makes excuses for
Arab terror. He uses invented words, such as "ethnogratic"
[sic] and "Judaizing",
to bash the Jewish State of Israel. Yiftachel misleadingly portrays
the State as stealing and colonizing land, which for the most part
had been
barren and in almost all cases Israel has the better claim
historically and under International Law than Arabs. Yiftachel
claims the ongoing "Judaization" is responsible for population
transfer, dispossession of land, apartheid, racism within Israeli
society, and other various forms of "discriminatory" legislation.
Stopping "Judaization" thus is Yiftachel's delusional panacea to
creating an idyllic far-leftist utopia free from strife.

In
her
soul-searching, riveting article, Prof. Eva Illouz argues that
this ostensible regime of separation stems primarily from the
distorted importation here of ethno-religious principles that
dictated the isolationist, self-defensive Jewish existence in the
Diaspora. … She appears to have fallen into what I have termed the
classic "ethnogratic" [sic] trap: attributing inordinate importance to
what is occurring within the Jewish "bubble."

If we lift our eyes a little above the roofs of the synagogues,
yeshivas and rabbis' hats, and examine the formation of society in
Israel from a comparative perspective, we will understand that the
religious explanation, despite its importance, blinds us from seeing
the primary cause of the separation regime: the process of the
country's takeover − namely, its ongoing "Judaization." This
process, which is imposing a Jewish identity on a land that was
largely Palestinian-Arab in its recent past, "necessitates" Jewish
expansion accompanied by coerced religious, ethnic, cultural,
political and, most crucial, geographic separation…
…
The "Judaization factor" ceaselessly generates new legislation and
policy initiatives which produce new types of polarization and
conflict, such as the annexation of the Little Triangle of Arab
communities – the Arab towns of Baka al-Garbiyeh, Taibeh and Tira –
to a Palestinian state ‏(whose establishment Israel is preventing‏);
the Nakba and the Boycott Laws; the proposed Prawer Law, the idea of
conditioning citizenship on loyalty vows; the adoption of
discriminatory family unification laws and the existence of
selection committees in hundreds of suburban communities.
…
The Jews can be said, in effect, to have been "expelled to their
homeland." … the Jews in Palestine/Israel spawned a process which
can be defined as "colonization of refugees."

However, for the native inhabitants of this country − the
Palestinians − the process of the Jewish takeover looked quite
similar to other ethnic takeovers, which almost always assume the
form of appropriation, settlement, expulsion and political
subordination of the local population to settlers who come from
afar. This being so, the Palestinians, too – like most of the
colonized peoples – oppose the process with all their might,
sometimes violently, and generate a constant threat to it. This
dialectic intensifies the Jewish use of tactics of territorial
expansion, amid an almost total separation from the retreating local
residents.

The process reached a violent peak in the Israeli War of
Independence ‏(the Nakba‏), when two-thirds of the Palestinians were
forced out and hundreds of their villages destroyed, and have
remained refugees to this day. However, contrary to democratic
reasoning – which would have tried to stabilize ethnic relations
after the crisis of 1948 – Israel did not stop but went on with the
ethnic colonization, initially within the Green Line and afterward
in the territories conquered in 1967. At the same time, Israel has
so far prevented forcibly the establishment of a Palestinian state,
which could provide an answer, partial but significant, to the
question of the refugees and Palestinian sovereignty.
…
This process is creating an apartheid regime in the territories,
which is increasingly creeping gradually into Israel and threatening
the character of the entire regime.
…
What next? As I've shown, the greatest obstacle to the emergence of
a sustainable democratic society in Israel is the momentum of
ethno-colonialist takeover and the forced separation it necessarily
entails. It is important to point out that the termination of the
Judaization process does not mean the dissolution of the
Jewish-Israeli national project, but quite the contrary: ending
Judaization will place it on legitimate, sustainable foundations −
without appropriation, suppression and expansion at the expense of
others.

Greenstein reviews a book on the 1929 Arab Riots by Hillel Cohen
that describes how the 1929 Riots, a central tenet of the Zionist
Movement in which many hundreds of Jews were killed or maimed in an
unprovoked manner. Greenstein blames the Zionists for distorting and
manipulating the events and claims the 1929 Arab Riots weren't
really all as bad as the Zionist made them to be. Greenstein,
promoting his own Marxist far-leftist agenda, promotes marginal
liberal anti-Zionistic parts of the book that were not paid "much
attention" to by Cohen.

In
the Israeli-Jewish collective memory, 1929 provides the ultimate
proof that there is 'no partner' for a political agreement with
Palestinians, who would stab any Jew – regardless of his/her
personal history or political affiliation – in the back, if given
half a chance. The notion that all Arabs wish to throw Jews into the
proverbial sea has its origins in that year. But, as Cohen
demonstrates in the book, this is the impact not so much of the
real, historical, events of 1929, but the way in which they have
been reconstructed and represented in subsequent political and
cultural discourses.

In a sense, all historical events are mediated through politics and
culture. They never reach us in a pure form. This is true, of
course, for 1929 as well, though its crucial role in shaping the
course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict means that the degree of
political manipulation, use and abuse, has been larger than usual.
Cohen does not wish to debunk the main story line from a Zionist
perspective – the attack on and massacre of innocent civilians – but
rather to contextualize it, sort out narrative discrepancies and
queries, and provide an explanation, where possible, for its
specific course and effects.
…
Cohen recognizes that there were forces opposing these trends but
does not pay much attention to them, for understandable reasons:
they were weak to start with and were further marginalized by the
events. Nevertheless, their story is important and deserves a more
thorough exposure. The bi-nationalist association Brit Shalom was
shaken by the events in a way that became typical to Jewish liberals
in the history of the conflict: some of them moved to the mainstream
while others became radicalised.

University of Haifa - Ami
Ayalon (Head of the Steering Committee), the
Ultra-Leftist,
Abandons the Jordan Valley too

Ayalon demands that the State capitulate to Arab demands and forfeit
Israel's
legitimate claims to the lands beyond the Green Line as a
gesture of good faith. As if releasing convicted terrorists, an
action which flies in the face of justice, wasn't enough.

Knesset
Member Miri Regev's bill to
apply the Israeli law to the Jordan Valley, which was approved
last week by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, turns them
into hostages. Those settlers, some of whom arrived at the Jordan
Valley 30 and 40 years ago, who gave the best years of their lives
and their life's work as the State's emissaries, who are ageing and
whose children no longer live close to them, will be trapped in a
place where they see no future – neither personal nor national.
…
But that is not enough. The State of Israel's mission hangs over it
all: To serve as a democratic state which is the national home of
the Jewish people. For that purpose we must ensure that the State
has a clear Jewish majority, and that is only possible if we create
a reality of two states. The government must declare that it has no
and will have no sovereignty claims east of the security fence. Such
a declaration will increase the faith of the international community
and Arab countries in the sincerity of Israel's intentions to reach
an agreement with the Palestinians, and will reduce the
international, diplomatic and economic isolation we are heading
towards right now.

Tel Aviv University - Anat Biletzky (Dept of Philosophy) Joins Treasonous Anti-Zionists in Support
of Ex-MK Azmi
Bishara while Suspected of Aiding the Enemy in Wartime

Azmi Bishara, in hiding after being wanted on
charges of money laundering,
spying and assisting the Hezbollah terror organization during
wartime, received public support from Anat Biletzky and other disloyal Anti-Zionists.

Anyone with a bit of knowledge of Israel's
far-left, and
radical anti-Zionist Left is aware of the long list of crimes
these people have committed in the moral sense against Israel and
some, in the actual criminal-sitting-in-jail sense, not to mention
defending terrorists.

University of Haifa - Faculty Protest Leftist Thought
Police within the Steering Committee

One fourth of the faculty members at the University of Haifa
protest the Steering Committee's decision to deny awarding an
honorary doctorate to Prof. Aumann.

More than 100 faculty members at the University of Haifa,
including those closely identified with the left, are protesting the
university's decision to deny an honorary doctorate to a Nobel
Prize-winning economist because his political views were considered
too far to the right.
…
"We the undersigned, members of the academic faculty of the
University of Haifa representing all positions on the political
spectrum, agree that the disqualification of Prof. Yisrael Aumann as
a candidate for receiving an honorary doctorate from the University
is embarrassing and has done enormous damage to the university's
image and public standing. We believe that the university's
Executive Committee exceeded its authority when it deemed it proper
to explain this invalidation and to justify it retroactively by
citing Prof. Aumann's political opinions…" said the statement
protesting the university's decision.
…
Sources at the university said Aumann's political views were
explicitly discussed in the meeting about his candidacy for the
honorary doctorate. An executive committee member said his remarks
about Arabs made it difficult for committee members to grant him the
honorary doctorate…
…
Widely considered Israel's most left-wing university, the University
of Haifa regularly finds itself in the sights of right-wing groups
like Im Tirtzu. But this time its own staff is criticizing the
decision. One of the 160 signatories is Gad Barzilai, the law school
dean described by the conservative website Frontpage Mag as "a
radical active in leftist 'human rights' groups."
…
The statement expressed a need to set clear criteria for the
awarding of honorary doctorates and to delineate the values of the
university.

Tel Aviv University - Anat Matar
(Dept of Philosophy) Chants her Mantra: Release the Terrorists! (so
they can kindly come and murder us)

Matar attacks IDF soldiers as vile murderers of women and children.
She blindly blames the Governments of Israel, the Security Forces,
and Police for whitewashing all Arab deaths.

The
hypocrisy that characterizes the public discourse on the issue of
the release of Palestinian prisoners is getting worse. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reprimands Mahmoud Abbas for his
celebration of the prisoners' release, saying that "murderers are
not heroes," and no eyebrows are raised. All the speakers
interviewed on radio broadcasts – including those who support
prisoner release, such as Meretz MKs and analysts considered
moderate – writhe in discomfort facing the release of people
imprisoned decades ago, giving no thought to the fact that in their
very own neighborhoods, murderers no less vile than the Palestinians
walk free. According to data provided by the B'Tselem human rights
agency, since the assault on Gaza five years ago, about 100 minors
and women have been killed in the occupied ter